Kulim Hi-Tech Park is on a roll

For the past few months, Kulim Hi-Tech Park

is constantly in the news.

Firstly was when the Malaysian Government

announced the sale of the state-owned Silterra,

which is a pure-play global semiconductor foundry.

SilTerra is a 200mm semiconductor wafer foundry, 

offering CMOS fabrication for integrated circuits (ICs)

in High Voltage applications, Advanced Logic, and

Mixed Signal & Radio Frequency 

It has also moved into more advanced technology 

areas such as Bio-photonics,  Silicon Photonics

MEMS on CMOS, Galium Nitride(GaN), BC​D and 

Discrete Power  or more popularly known as

“More-than-Moore” technologies.  

Then it was announced in the press that AT&S 

(Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft), 

the Austria-headquartered global manufacturing leader 

of high-end printed circuit boards (PCB) 

and integrated circuit (IC) substrates, 

has chosen Kulim Hi-Tech Park as its first 

production plant in Southeast Asia with an

investment of RM8.5 Billion.

The plant will be on 56 acres of land in Phase 4

of the high tech science park, and will create 

5,000 jobs. Commercial operations will start 

in 2024.

And recently a Chinese solar energy firm 

Risen Energy Co Ltd will invest RM42.2 billion 

over 15 years in a new production facility in 

Kulim Hi-Tech Park  to manufacture high-efficiency 

photovoltaic modules.

Risen Energy Co., Ltd. was founded in 1986 

and is a listed Chinese public company .

It is an integrated manufacturer from wafers 

to modules, a manufacturer of off-grid systems, 

and also a developer and an EPC of PV projects.

The plant is expected to be completed by the year-end 

and begin commercial activities by the first quarter of 2022

( Some of the world's largest PV producers such as 

JinkoSolar, Longi Solar, Hanwha Q Cell and First Solar,

are also located in Malaysia )

So where is this Kulim Hi-Tech Park ?

KHTP is a high technology science park in 

Kulim Kedah, the northern part of Malaysia, 

and is situated 36km away from Penang.

This park was opened in 1996, and is the home to 

some of the world's biggest names in manufacturing

with 34 industrial tenants and 46 supporting tenants,

with a total workforce of over 28,000.

The advantages of Kulim Hi-Teck Park are

Centrally located within the NCER Economic Growth Region,

26 km from North-Butterworth Container, Penang Port,

43 km from Penang’s Bayan Lepas International Airport 

and directly linked to the North-South Highway 

and East-West Expressway

What is significant about this industrial park

is their Leasehold industrial land for 60 years 

( with an option to renew for another 39 years )

at a lease rate of RM45 p.s.f.

Based on the foregoing, more investments 

will come into this park soon ....