SDP expects automation to reduce reliance on manual workers


Sime Darby Plantation group managing director, Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha

PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) expects its investments in the automation, digitalisation and mechanism of estate operations to cut its reliance on manual workers and improve productivity.

The planter stated that as a result of a broad-scale initiative launched two years ago under its “Project Infinity”, it now expects to eliminate the need for manual workers in all non-harvesting activities by the end of 2023.

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