KUALA LUMPUR: Karex Industries Sdn Bhd, the world's biggest condom manufacturer, will expand capacity after selling shares next year, boosting Malaysia's bid to rejuvenate its rubber industry amid competition from Thailand and Vietnam.
“Demand for condoms is continuously growing,” said Goh Miah Kiat, whose great-grandfather started the company as a grocery store on a Malaysian rubber plantation almost a century ago.
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