MIDA
The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) is the federal agency that approves and promotes manufacturing and services investment into Malaysia, including the fiscal and non-fiscal incentives offered to industrialised-building-system (IBS) manufacturers.
LB Group starts RM1b titanium dioxide plant in Gurun, Kedah
China's LB Group has started a RM1 billion titanium dioxide plant on 60.1 acres in the Gurun Heavy Industrial Park, Kedah, with RM600 million in phase 1. It paid RM117.8 million, o…
Cohu in Malaysia: Penang design centre, Melaka factory
Who is Cohu? A US chip-test equipment maker with its largest factory in Melaka and, since June 2024, a RM71 million design centre in Bayan Lepas, Penang. What it does, since when, …
SkyGate NHJ commits US$30mil to a 36,000 sq ft plant in the Perai Free Industrial Zone
The Malaysia–Singapore precision machining joint venture opened its Perai FIZ facility on 4 September with Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow officiating, committing US$30 million (RM121…
Penang approved RM17.3bil of manufacturing investment in six months — 77% of all of last year, and 69% of it is existing factories expanding
MIDA figures released on 3 September put Penang first in Malaysia for approved manufacturing investment in 1H2026: RM17.3 billion, 34% of the national total and 38% up year-on-year…
SIBS’s RM500mil Penang Science Park plant, the Swedish modular builder now ships Penang-made apartments to the UK, Australia and Greenland
Scandinavian IBS opened a 15-acre, ~500,000 sq ft second plant at Penang Science Park (North), Simpang Ampat in September 2022, part of a RM500 million programme promising 1,200 jo…
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