Vivax-Metrotech Corporation announced a new manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia, with an investment of RM48 million that will create 175 high-skilled jobs and produce precision technologies for telecom and utilities.

Oliver Healthcare Packaging officially opened a new 120,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, producing medical-grade pouches, lids and roll stock for Asia-Pacific pharmaceutical and medical device customers. The opening was reported on 15 May 2025.

Keyto MY Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Shenzhen Keyto Fluid Technology, inaugurated its fluid technology manufacturing plant in Batu Kawan, Penang, on November 18, 2024, expected to generate RM 65 million in sales over three years.

Brooks Instrument opened a 57,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Penang, its fourth global production site, to make GF100 mass flow controllers for semiconductor customers.

The Wilo Group opened a new assembly plant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with an assembly line, test bench and training offices, to serve as a Southeast Asia hub. Production of vertical pressure-boosting systems is planned from the end of 2021.

Oji announced a new corrugated packaging plant in Malaysia with 7 million m² per month capacity on a 42,000 m² site, to be operated by subsidiary United Kotak Berhad at a cost of about JPY4bn. Production is scheduled to start in January 2022.

DexCom selected a 28-acre site in Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang, for a new facility making sensors and applicators for its CGM systems, with construction expected to begin in the second half of 2020.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging plans to build a beverage can plant in Malaysia at a cost of RMB461 million (US$66 million), its second project outside China after Saigon, Vietnam.

IPP, a joint venture now part of SCG Packaging, opened a new greenfield packaging factory in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, on 15 February 2019, equipped with Koenig & Bauer, Heidelberg and Bobst converting equipment.

HPI Resources subsidiary Harta Packaging Industries (Perak) launched its second plant, HP2, at the Parit Buntar industrial area, worth RM45 million. The plant doubles the group's northern production capacity to 66,000 tonnes annually.

Zhejiang Xinshengda Holding Group plans a paper mill in Kulim, Malaysia, with three machines and 700 thousand tonnes per year of GD cardboard capacity, following a late November 2018 MoU with Invest Kedah Berhad. The investment is estimated at 1.2 billion ringgit and about 1,300 jobs.

ASX-listed Secos Group signed a two-year lease, with an option for two more years, on a 30,000 sq ft facility about 19 km from Port Klang to expand bioplastic resin manufacturing, with resin production expected by June 2018.

Fresenius Medical Care opened its regional manufacturing plant in Bandar Enstek, Malaysia, which will serve as its Southeast Asia manufacturing hub and is the first peritoneal dialysis products plant in Malaysia.