Bucher Emhart Glass sets up plant in Johor

Manufacturing hub: (From left) AME group managing director Kelvin Lee Chai, Kümmerle, Lee, Bucher Emhart Glass vice-president of logistics and manufacturing Juan P Montes and AME executive director Simon Lee at the ceremony.

KULAI: Leading international glass container supplier Bucher Emhart Glass has made Johor its home by setting up a RM135mil manufacturing plant in Senai here.

According to Johor investment, trade and consumer affairs committee chairman Lee Ting Han, the construction of the Swiss company’s 300,000 sq ft facility is expected to be completed in the third quarter of next year.