Engineers, interns to get placements

Strengthening human capital: Noraini giving her speech at the launch of the EPIP programme.

THE timber industry is on the lookout for more local graduates as it moves into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0).

Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) president Mazli Zakuan Mohd Noor said the council has created the first-of-its-kind Engineer Placement and Internship Placement (EPIP) in the Timber Industry 2021 programme, which is divided into two parts – for engineers and for interns.