In The Industry - Penang Monthly

Penang-born Precision Engineering Firm Continues Moving Up the Value Chain

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KOBAY TECHNOLOGY HAS as its core business highprecision engineering, with peripheric tradings in property development. It was founded as Polytool Technologies i...

Lee Siu Ming

Expanding the Hi-tech Ecosystem in Penang for a New Era

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OVER THE PAST 20 years, ViTrox has established itself as a global technology company that is “powered in Penang and in Malaysia”, growing to reach a market capi...

Lee Siu Ming

An Exciting Age for Penang’s Manufacturing Sector

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LAST YEAR, Penang celebrated its 50 years of manufacturing excellence, significantly in the Electronics & Electrical (E&E) sector. While there are many...

Dato' Seri Lee Kah Choon

With Sights Set on More Innovation

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KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, founded as Hewlett-Packard in 1939, established its presence in Bayan Lepas in 1972 with an initial total of 60 employees. Today, the 1.2...

Ong Wooi Leng

Penang Now a Prime Centre for Wafer Fabrication Equipment Manufacturing

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THE GLOBAL FORTUNE 500 company Lam Research Corporation (Lam Research) announced last February that it will soon be investing in Penang.A global supplier of i...

Lee Siu Ming

Local Solutions in Integrated Engineering Generate Huge Possibilities

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PENANG’S INDUSTRIAL GROWTH is anchored in its promoted sectors, especially the electrical and electronics (E&E) and machinery and equipment industries...

Ong Wooi Leng

Locally Familiar, Globally Recognised

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MANY A TIME, the obvious complexities of everyday items elude us. Take the device many of us treat as extensions of ourselves: the mobile phone. CNBC estimates...

Timothy Choy