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UPP Holdings Limited is an investment holding company focused on creating value through strategic investments. The Group has businesses in paper manufacturing, power generation, distribution of  building materials and property investment holding. Founded in 1967, the Group is headquartered in Singapore, with business operations and assets in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Canada and the USA.

The Group's pulp and paper mill in Ijok, Malaysia, is one of the five largest in Malaysia and produced almost 10% of the country’s domestic annual production of industrial brown paper. Its products include test liner, corrugated medium and core board, which are used to manufacture a wide range of paper packaging products.

UPP Holdings owns a 50 MW independent power plant (IPP) project in Yangon, Myanmar. The gas fired power plant commenced operations in 2014, and is one of Myanmar’s first fully-foreign owned IPPs. The plant supplies power to the national grid under a 30-year power purchase agreement with the state-owned Electric Power Generation Enterprise, under Myanmar's Ministry of Electricity and Energy.

In 2017, UPP Holdings Limited acquired a majority stake in Taiga Building Products Limited, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Taiga is Canada's largest wholesale distributor of building materials, such as lumber, panels, mouldings, doors, engineered wood, roofing, insulations and others.  It has 15 distribution centres across Canada, from Nanaimo in Vancouver Island in the west, to Paradise, Newfoundland in the east. Distribution sales into the USA are through 2 distribution centres in California and 6 reload stations in the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Vermont and Illinois.