Factory Expansion / Investment · 10 stories
YBS International buys the Perai factory it was renting for RM390,600 a month
YBS International’s subsidiary is paying RM23.5 million for the Perai semi-detached factory it already occupies — the second adjoining lot it has bought on the same road, at the sa…
Intuitive’s RM2 billion Batu Kawan plant: 40 acres carry a seven-acre building
The da Vinci robotic-surgery maker will spend more than RM2 billion over five years on its first Malaysian plant at Bandar Cassia Technology Park — about RM817 million of it on lan…
Chinese Group Sheng Long Breaks Ground on RM140mil Aquafeed Plant in Kamunting, Taiping
Sheng Long Aqua Technology, the aquaculture arm of China’s Guangdong Haid Group, is investing about RM140mil in its first Malaysian production base at the Kamunting industrial area…
NXP Breaks Ground on 500,000 sq ft Assembly and Test Expansion in Petaling Jaya
Dutch-American chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has broken ground on a new assembly and test building in Petaling Jaya that will add about 500,000 sq ft and take the Selangor site to r…
THMY Upsizes New Batu Kawan Factory to RM172.6mil — Five Times the Original Budget
Automated test solutions firm THMY Holdings has expanded its new Batu Kawan factory plan to RM172.6mil — five times the RM29.35mil budgeted at its IPO — with built-up area more tha…
South Korea’s K-Test Breaks Ground on RM205mil Perak Plant, Its First in Southeast Asia
Semiconductor testing specialist K-Test has broken ground on a US$50mil (RM205mil) wafer and final testing plant in Perak — its first Southeast Asian facility — targeted for practi…
Eppendorf picks Batu Kawan: RM180mil plant is its first factory in Southeast Asia
German lab-equipment maker Eppendorf has signed with PDC for a greenfield RM180mil plant at Bandar Cassia Technology Park — its first factory in Southeast Asia, exporting to the US…
Ajinomoto’s RM603mil Privatisation — and the Land Trade That Sits Underneath It
Ajinomoto (Malaysia) is being taken private at RM20 a share through a selective capital reduction, repaying minority shareholders RM603.4mil. Days before the board backed it, the c…
Jabil further Expands in Malaysia Roots as It Climbs the Manufacturing Value Chain
Thirty years after opening its first Asian factory in Penang, Jabil now runs six Malaysian facilities employing 14,000 people. Malaysia MD Tan Siew Jin tells The Edge how the group…
PM Anwar Opens MKS Inc’s RM400mil Super Center Factory in Batu Kawan
US semiconductor equipment giant MKS Inc has opened its Super Center Factory at Bandar Cassia Technology Park, Batu Kawan — its largest manufacturing investment since founding in 1…
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