MACQUARIE ASEAN CONFERENCE 2018 PENANG ·THE SILICON VALLEY OF THE EAST·TOUR
Penang: 30 August 2018
Macquarie invites you to attend our ASEAN Conference 2018 Penang Tour ·The Silicon Valley of the East· Penang is the 2nd smallest state in Malaysia but is amongst the top-6 contributors to Malaysia's GDP with a 6.6% share in 2017. Widely regarded as the Silicon Valley of the East, Penang held the largest share of Malaysia's foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2017 with a total of RM8.5bn (US$2.1bn) or 22% of Malaysia's overall FDI.
Our tour begins with a meeting with the newly appointed Penang Chief Minister, Mr Chow Kon Yeow, for an overview of Penang's economy and the new government's development and growth plans to maintain Penang's attractiveness to foreign investment. We then head to Bayan Lepas, southern Penang Island, home to its international airport and its Free Industrial Zone where various multinational electronic and engineering firms have set up factories and assembly plants. We will visit Penang's Inari Amertron Bhd (INRI MK), a home-grown and now leading outsourced semi-conductor assembly and testing company (OSAT) to MNCs in the electronics and semiconductor industry, followed by a meeting with one of Inari Amertron's MNC clients, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a unit of OSRAM Licht AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Osram were one of the pioneer companies in Penang, operating since 1972. We will then cross the Second Penang Bridge to Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang? new industrial zone with a total size of 2,680 hectares which has attracted a host of MNCs including Bose Corporation, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard and IKEA. Batu Kawan is also ViTrox Corporation? (VITRO MK) new campus base, another home-grown technology company catering to MNCs. ViTrox designs and manufactures automated vision inspection equipment and system-on-chip embedded electronics devices for the semiconductor and electronics packaging industries.
Proposed Itineraries:
Wednesday 29 August
Suggested flight from Singapore to Penang: SilkAir: Scoot: TR428 - 18:55 or MI354 ·19:00
Suggested hotel: Eastern & Oriental Hotel or Hotel Jen in George Town
Thursday 30 August, Penang, Malaysia
09:15 Bus pick-up from hotel
09:30 Meeting with Penang Chief Minister ·Mr Chow Kon Yeow - Confirmed
11:00 Inari Amertron (INRI MK; Mkt Cap: US$1.8bn), Mr KC Lau, CEO ·Confirmed
Meeting and Plant Visit
13:00 Lunch Meeting: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Unlisted), Dr Chang Chee Jia, Subcon Operation Management ·Confirmed
15:30 Vitrox (VITRO MK; Mkt Cap: US$656mn), Mr Chu Jenn Weng, Co-founder, President and CEO - Confirmed
Meeting and Plant Visit
17:00 Bus transfer back to George Town
20:00 Welcome dinner in George Town
Friday 31 August ·Departure
Penang: 30 August 2018
Macquarie invites you to attend our ASEAN Conference 2018 Penang Tour ·The Silicon Valley of the East· Penang is the 2nd smallest state in Malaysia but is amongst the top-6 contributors to Malaysia's GDP with a 6.6% share in 2017. Widely regarded as the Silicon Valley of the East, Penang held the largest share of Malaysia's foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2017 with a total of RM8.5bn (US$2.1bn) or 22% of Malaysia's overall FDI.
Our tour begins with a meeting with the newly appointed Penang Chief Minister, Mr Chow Kon Yeow, for an overview of Penang's economy and the new government's development and growth plans to maintain Penang's attractiveness to foreign investment. We then head to Bayan Lepas, southern Penang Island, home to its international airport and its Free Industrial Zone where various multinational electronic and engineering firms have set up factories and assembly plants. We will visit Penang's Inari Amertron Bhd (INRI MK), a home-grown and now leading outsourced semi-conductor assembly and testing company (OSAT) to MNCs in the electronics and semiconductor industry, followed by a meeting with one of Inari Amertron's MNC clients, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a unit of OSRAM Licht AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Osram were one of the pioneer companies in Penang, operating since 1972. We will then cross the Second Penang Bridge to Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Penang? new industrial zone with a total size of 2,680 hectares which has attracted a host of MNCs including Bose Corporation, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard and IKEA. Batu Kawan is also ViTrox Corporation? (VITRO MK) new campus base, another home-grown technology company catering to MNCs. ViTrox designs and manufactures automated vision inspection equipment and system-on-chip embedded electronics devices for the semiconductor and electronics packaging industries.
Proposed Itineraries:
Wednesday 29 August
Suggested flight from Singapore to Penang: SilkAir: Scoot: TR428 - 18:55 or MI354 ·19:00
Suggested hotel: Eastern & Oriental Hotel or Hotel Jen in George Town
Thursday 30 August, Penang, Malaysia
09:15 Bus pick-up from hotel
09:30 Meeting with Penang Chief Minister ·Mr Chow Kon Yeow - Confirmed
11:00 Inari Amertron (INRI MK; Mkt Cap: US$1.8bn), Mr KC Lau, CEO ·Confirmed
Meeting and Plant Visit
13:00 Lunch Meeting: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Unlisted), Dr Chang Chee Jia, Subcon Operation Management ·Confirmed
15:30 Vitrox (VITRO MK; Mkt Cap: US$656mn), Mr Chu Jenn Weng, Co-founder, President and CEO - Confirmed
Meeting and Plant Visit
17:00 Bus transfer back to George Town
20:00 Welcome dinner in George Town
Friday 31 August ·Departure
