Dell to open 2nd KL plant

Dell to open 2nd KL plant

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): U.S. computer firm, Dell, will open a second plant in Penang in February which is expected to increase the company's output in the Asia-Pacific region by five times, a news report said on Friday.

The new factory will be the third in the region by Dell which has an existing plant in Penang and in Xiamen, China.

The new Dell plant at Bukit Minyak would produce mainly notebooks intended for sale in the U.S., said Lim Ghou Choong, the material logistics head of Dell Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd.

"We decided to set up a new plant in Bukit Minyak because of the increasing sales orders from all over the region. The orders are so huge that we have run out of space now," he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times daily.

With the new plant running from February, Dell is expected to ship out about 10 million units of desktop computers and notebooks, he said.

Dell set up operations in Penang in 1995 at its current plant in Bayan Lepas.