KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 21): MMC Corp Bhd’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Senai Airport City Sdn Bhd (SACSB) is disposing of two parcels of vacant industrial land in Senai Airport City to Wiwynn Technology Service (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Wiwynn Technology) for RM68.3 million.

The purchase of the land parcels, measuring 4.8 hectares (ha) and 7.9ha respectively, is expected to pave the way for the setting up of Taiwan-based Wiwynn Corp’s (Wiwynn) cloud information technology (IT) infrastructure manufacturing facilities.

Wiwynn Technology is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wiwynn.

“The Senai Airport City Free Industrial Zone was selected by Wiwynn as the preferred site to expand its cloud IT infrastructure manufacturing facilities to develop high-performance computing server, storage products and rack solutions for leading data centres in the Asia-Pacific region,’’ MMC said in a statement on Tuesday (Dec 21).

Construction of the infrastructure manufacturing facilities is expected to be completed by 2023.  

Wiwynn supply chain and manufacturing vice-president Robin Wang said the Senai Airport City Free Industrial Zone provides the company with great geographical benefits, a rich talent pool and a high degree of operational flexibility to grow its Asia-Pacific business.

MMC said Senai Airport City is the only industrial development area in Iskandar Malaysia, with a 162ha gazetted Free Industrial Zone and Free Commercial Zone that cater for export-oriented industries, an ideal location for a principal or regional distribution hub to serve the Asia-Pacific market.

To date, Senai Airport City has invested approximately RM550 million in completed industrial plots with infrastructure and utilities.

This year, SACSB has received seven notable foreign direct Investments and domestic direct investments — involving approximately 57ha of land sales — and all of them are targeted to commence operations in 2022 and 2023.

SACSB chief executive officer Gan Seng Keong attributed Senai Airport City’s success to its complete and dedicated basic infrastructure and connectivity to seaports and airports.

‘’Equally important is Senai Airport City’s competitive advantage in terms of its strategic location within the ecosystem of mature industries in the Senai-Kulai district,” he said.