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Continental Inaugurates New Mixing Facility at Malaysi
Continental, the tech- nology company, celebrated the in- auguration of a new state- of-the-art rubber compound mixing facility at its tyre plant in Alor Setar Malaysia. Since 1979, Continental has pro- duced passenger and light truck tyres as well as two- wheel tyres in Malaysia for the APAC market. The plant in Alor Setar currently em- ploys more than 1000 people and would celebrate its 40th anniversary at the end of this year.
Continental invested more than RM65 million for the new mixing facility that would enhance the manu- facturing process by add- ing state-of-the-art rubber compound mixing technol- ogy locally. Carlos Bernabe, General Manager of the tyre manufacturing plant in Alor Setar, said: “Continental’s tyres deliver safety and top performance. Quality is our top priority. Our new rubber compound mixing facility in Alor Setar would help us keep our competitive posi- tion in the global Continental manufacturing network. We deliver only the best in qual- ity and performance tyres to - clude an increase in capacity - ening tyre production and adding to the local content portfolio with ‘German Tech- nology’ made in Alor Setar.
The newly built facility would extend production space by about 3200 square metres - ed by Dato’ Seri Mukhriz Tun Mahathir, the Chief Minister
of Kedah Darul Aman. He said: “We value the very good and trustful relationship we have built up in the past. The most recent extension is a good sign for the local community and dem- onstrates our region’s attractiveness to inter- national businesses
Bernabe added: “I am very proud of my team and would like to ex- press my sincere big thanks to our dedicated team who demonstrated the passion to win in reaching this important milestone, which was only possible through - mitment, teamwork and collaboration with all the
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