Rubber glove maker Supermax sees future in lenses

AT a time when the rubber glove industry is expanding with demand still outstripping supply, Supermax Corp Bhd’s move to diversify into another unrelated industry to manufacture contact lenses appears to be quite unconventional.

The company’s founder and president Datuk Seri Stanley Thai said on the sidelines of the Malaysian product launch of this business last week that it needed to tap into an industry that could offer growth.