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Article: Thong Fook offers new sack concept
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- Plastics & Rubber Asia
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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Thong Fook Plastics Industries, one of the prominent flexible film manufacturers in Malaysia, has invested RM12 million in a Windmoeller & Holscher (W&H) AD Plastic SL Valve bottomer machine for the production of pasted polyethylene sacks, writes Wira Sulaiman.
Its Managing Director, Mr SY Liew, told PRA that the company is the first to acquire such a machine in the country.
The investment represents one of its first steps to specialise further in the business to ensure it remains competitive (also see 'MPMA adjusts the focus' in this issue on page 47). 'A lot of us (flexible film manufacturers) have started changing from Japanese or Taiwanese to European ...