Bayan Lepas · 5 stories
Bayan Lepas is Penang island’s established electronics manufacturing hub, home to the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone and decades-old operations for global E&E and semiconductor multinationals. It remains the anchor site for many of the multinationals that first put Penang on the global electronics map.
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, …
TT Vision commits RM92mil to a 153,000 sq ft factory on PDC’s Plot 81A, Bayan Lepas — RM160 psf land, RM600 psf to build, and a company worth RM105mil
TT Vision Technologies has awarded Yu Tong Construction a RM92 million contract to build a factory-cum-office on Plot 81A, Bayan Lepas Industrial Park — 3.6 acres leased from PDC f…
RM500 million bridge to Pulau Jerejak starts next month — and Penang wants a financial hub on the other side
Road widening begins in September for the 1km bridge giving Pulau Jerejak its first-ever road access. On the island: a 32ha development pitched as a financial centre for Penang’s 2…
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…
Hektar REIT Closes RM30mil Bayan Lepas Factory Buy at a 7.5% Triple-Net Yield
Sixteen months after announcing it, Hektar REIT has completed the RM30mil purchase of a Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone factory from MQ Technology unit Microlead Precision — a sal…
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