MALAYSIA: Construction start-up on planned $140,000,000 optic contact lens plant, CIBA VISION [USA] Order #: 066006.

WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific, June, 2006

PROJECT OVERVIEW

US-based CIBA VISION recently started building its planned state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas Free Zone in Malaysia. According to Mike Dilworth, CIBA VISION Head (Global Supply Chain), the new facility will enable is company to produce its latest O2Optix high-quality contact lenses which will be exported to some 70 countries.

CIBA VISION currently also operates manufacturing facilities in Singapore and Batam, Indonesia. Unlike these 2 other manufacturing units, the Johor plant will only be concentrating in manufacturing the ...