Kulim Hi-Tech Park

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Community Information

  • Name: Kulim Hi-Tech Park
  • Location: Kulim, Malaysia
  • Slogan: The Science City of the Future
  • Website: www.khtp.com.my
  • Developer: Kulim Technology Park Corporation (Malaysia)1
  • Major investors: First Solar (USA), Intel (USA), Silterra Malaysia (Malaysia), Infineon (Germany)1
  • Construction start date: 19961
    • Currently on 4th phase out of 10.1
  • Size: 1700 hectares2
  • Type of housing: Houses, apartments2

Self-Narrative

“The Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP), officially opened in 1996, is the first Hi-Tech Park in Malaysia. The KHTP is situated in the district of Kulim, in the state of Kedah, in the northwest of Peninsular Malaysia. Currently, the development of KHTP covers an area of approximately 1,700 hectares (approximately 4,000 acres).

The KHTP is conceived and developed as one of the national strategies of Vision 2020 for Malaysia to become a fully-industrialised nation by 2020, envisioned to be the ‘Science City of The Future’, the KHTP is continually being developed and promoted as an integrated science park targeting clean, capital-intensive, and high, value-added technology-related industries primarily in the fields of advanced electronics, mechanical electronics, telecommunications, semiconductors, optoelectronics, biotechnology, advanced materials, research and development and emerging technologies.”2

Themes

A Brighter Future

  • ”The KHTP is conceived and developed as one of the national strategies of Vision 2020 for Malaysia to become a fully-industrialised nation by 2020.”2

  • ”As the winner of the FIABCI PROPERTY AWARD OF DISTINCTION 2003 Industrial Category, Kulim Hi-Tech Park is indeed an industrial property that can represent Malaysia’s resolute aspirations and thrust into the high technological frontiers of globalisation.”2

  • As an internationally-acclaimed Science Park, it has proven time and again in moving forward towards a full-fledged, integrated science park. In Malaysia, KTPC proudly and distinctively differentiates itself from the other established industrial park developers. This it does, with the whole-hearted support of its competent and professional team of management and personnel, all well-organised and bent on one vision: To transform Kulim Hi-Tech Park into ‘The Science City of the Future.”2

  • ”Twenty-one manufacturing and 37 supporting companies employ 16,000 workers, making the region an economic success story despite global recessionary forces at play. Opened in 1996, Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP) is a key component in the government’s plan to make Malaysia fully industrialized by 2020.”3

  • ”With our long-term plan of smart collaborations with industry and specific universities, we are aiming to provide KHTP with a ready pool of knowledge and skilled work force.”3

Location: Exclusive and Secure – Separate but Connected

  • ”A CCTV surveillance system is installed at strategic spots and monitored 24 hours per day by our security personnel at our centralized command centre. We also have a patrol car that backs up routine patrolling by the HKTP Police Department.”3

Organic

  • ”Most importantly, despite the expansions, we ensure that the green environment in KHTP is continually conserved.”3

Media

Image 1 from www.khtp.com.my; Image 2 from www.siteselection.com

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Sources

1Opalyn Mok, “Under New ‘management’, Greater Kulim Hi-Tech Park Booms,” The Malay Mail, accessed February 8, 2014, http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/under-new-management-greater-kulim-hi-tech-park-booms.

2Kulim Technology Park Corporation, “Kulim Hi-Tech Park,” accessed February 8, 2014, http://www.khtp.com.my/.

3Adam Jones-Kelly, “INVESTMENT PROFILE: MALAYSIA,” Site Selection Magazine, September 2009, http://www.siteselection.com/features/2009/sep/malaysia/.

This research sponsored by National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program Award No. BCS-1026754.