ASD de Costa Rica began producing clones on a semi-commercial scale in 2003, in a modern laboratory built in 1999. This laboratory, with a current production capacity of 500,000 ramets (plants from tissue culture) per year, has the most modern equipment and scientific apparatus and a sophisticated air filtration system that maintains high aseptic standards.

ASD's tissue culture method, which uses young inflorescences, obtains vigorous ramets with excellent root systems. The ramets are produced in the laboratory under aseptic conditions in a controlled environment and ASD has developed a simple and efficient method to gradually adapt the ramets to the nursery environment.

ASD uses tissue culture to reproduce superior, highly productive plants of smaller size. The compact clones that ASD offers have short leaves and trunks so that they can be planted at much higher than usual densities (200 palms/ha). This allows a considerable increase in production per unit area, a major reduction in harvesting costs and an extension of plantation commercial life by more than 10 years.

Since 2003, ASD has supplied around 600,000 ramets to 10 countries in Latin America and Asia . In Costa Rica the area planted with clones on a commercial scale exceeds 700 hectares.