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Article: Staedtler to shut plant in Pahang by April
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- July 28, 2009
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Chong Pooi Koon
New Straits Times
07-28-2009
Staedtler to shut plant in Pahang by April
Byline: Chong Pooi Koon
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Business Times
Type: Company
GERMAN pen and pencil maker Staedtler will shut its only Malaysian factory in Temerloh, Pahang, by next April.
The move will see 200 jobs lost.
"Staedtler has long been a global player with 24 sales subsidiaries around the world, and as a result of this consolidation, manufacturing will be concentrated at fewer production plants," it said in a press statement yesterday.
It will retain the sales, marketing and other support services office in Bangi, Selangor, to service the market here.
The plant in the Temerloh ...