Over the next seven years, the roadmap will also focus on introducing new technology in the industry to create high-skilled jobs, as well as on increasing competitiveness, among five aspirations listed.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 The implementation of the Chemical Industry Roadmap 2030 (CIR2030) is expected to increase the industry’s gross value added (GVA) to the overall.
The Chemical Industries Council of Malaysia has called on the government to ratify at the earliest the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is set to open access and help boost exports for Malaysian chemical players to Canada, Mexico and Peru via better price competitiveness following substantial elimination of tariffs
Last week, news that Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin, Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities (MPIC), had resigned sent shock waves through the palm oil industry. Since the 14th general election in 2018, we have had three ministers Teresa Kok Suh Sim, under Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad; Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali, under Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin; and Zuraida, under Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. As the country rides the most perfect storm in the palm oil industry, discontinuity and anxiety are certainly not welcome.