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Frontken plans to open another plant in Kulim |
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
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Fresh from investing RM25mil in a new plant in the Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Mesdaq-listed Frontken Corporation Bhd has plans to open another plant in the same vicinity by the end of next year.
Its executive chairman and managing director Willie Wong said the company would spend about the same investment amount on the second plant, which would be located next to the present one.
“We bought a total 2.7ha of land in the Kulim Hi-Tech Park of which 1.2ha has been used to construct the first plant.
“The remaining 1.5ha of land will be developed under two phases, which will include the construction of the second plant,” he told reporters at the opening ceremony of Frontken’s facility in Kulim on Tuesday.
The state-of-the-art Kulim plant, which offers precision parts cleaning and surface metamorphosis solutions, is Frontken’s 10th in the South East Asian region.
The company has five plants in Malaysia, three in Singapore, and one each in Thailand and the Philippines.
Wong said the Kulim plant would cater for business from the semiconductor sector with initial business predominantly from Infineon Technologies (Kulim) Sdn Bhd.
“The Kulim plant is expected to be able to process up to 2,000 sets of semiconductor process kits a month, with the capability and capacity to expand to 10,000 sets of process kits per month,” he said.
International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, who opened the plant, said the country had between January and November last year imported machinery and equipment worth RM34.2bil, while related exports amounted RM18.1bil.
Source: The Star |
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