KUALA
LUMPUR: Property group Mah Sing Group Bhd has proposed to diversify its
core businesses to include the manufacturing and trading of gloves and
related healthcare products.
In
its statement to Bursa Malaysia on Thursday, it said its indirect unit
Mah Sing Healthcare Sdn Bhd (MSHB) will buy 12 new gloves production
lines which can produce up to 3.68 billion pieces of gloves a year.
It
said glove production would be carried out in Klang where the MSHB had
entered into a tenancy agreement with Minho Kilning (Klang) Sdn Bhd to
occupy a warehouse in Kawasan Perindustrian Ladang Sungai Puloh.
Mah
Sing said the diversification was to enhance the group’s medium-term
financial performance by tapping into the global market to reduce the
over reliance on the domestic market for its property business in view
of the cyclical nature of the property sector.
“The
group anticipates that the proposed diversification can help to
mitigate potential downside risk of the group arising from the
wide-ranging effects of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to the local
and global economy," it said.
https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2020/10/15/mah-sing-to-diversify-into-gloves-healthcare-products