Sunday, April 14, 2013

Kulim Technology Park Supports Malaysian SMEs To Participate At Hannover Industrial Fair

HANNOVER, April 12, (Bernama) -- Though many small and medium sized companies lack resources and even proper information about overseas markets, they have an expert agency that can help them enter even sophisticated foreign markets and offer their range of products and services tailor-made to local demand.

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=941404
Published: April 14, 2013

Kulim Technology Park Corp Sdn Bhd of Kulim has been supporting SMEs to foray into foreign markets through their participation in highly sophisticated industrial trade shows such as the Hannover Industrial Fair, which runs from April 8 to 12.

Annuar Mohd Saffar, vice-president of Kulim Technology Park Corp, is currently visiting the Hannover show to monitor and guide the performance of four companies which it has brought to Hannover to exhibit their products in different halls of the fair.

Kulim Technology Park Corp has regularly been coming to the Hannover Industrial Fair since four years.

In fact, one of the Kulim-backed companies, Supreme, was successful last year in getting good orders from a Singaporean company after the two met in Hannover.

"Hopefully, the four companies this year will get equally good business. Hannover is not just a venue where you get business from Germany alone; it has an international resonation.

This is an international venue where one get business from anywhere in the world," Annuar said in an interview with Bernama at the Malaysan Pavilion at the show.

Making an international comparison with similar parks set up in other parts of the world, Annuar said Moscow City was developing a technology park and he was invited to deliver a lecture at the Hannover Industrial Fair on how Kulim had evolved from its infant stage to its present level of development.

Subsequently, a Russian delegation visited Kulim end of September last year.

"Indeed, the Russians brought with them technical experts to see and identify how Kulim functoned. It was part of a learning experience for them," Annuar said.

Meanwhile, Kulim Technology Park is entering its fourth phase of development which, as Annuar puts it, means "we are working on the completion of the land for Kulim".

He said Kulim could successfully recruit two medical device manufacturing companies, one of which is Panasonic Energy which is engaged in the solar energy sector.

He attributes the recruitment of the two companies to Kulim's participation in various solar exhibitions in conjunction with the Malaysia Investment Development Authority (MIDA).

"Kulim pursues a two-pronged strategy...one is to attract foreign companies to set up an operation in Kulim and the second part is to provide support to small Malaysian companies to export by participating in foreign trade fairs.

"And we are here at Hannover in pursuit of the second part of our strategy. We have brought here four companies this time," Annuar added.

-- BERNAMA

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