Tapping demand for medical devices

Added capacity: The company's new plant in Sungai Petani can produce 40 million pieces of rubber medical components a year.

THE growing global medical-grade silicone rubber market is providing fresh opportunities for rubber medical component manufacturers to expand.

Silcotech Industry Sdn Bhd, a rubber component producer based in Sungai Petani, Kedah, is one of the companies looking to leverage this surge in demand.