Kee Fatt Industry Sdn Bhd Malaysia

Company Profile

Mr. Chai Woo Sien
Founder and Executive Chairman
Kee Fatt Industries Sdn. Bhd.

Kee Fatt Industries Sdn Bhd, initially a family-business and now an established Malaysian-Japanese joint-venture manufacturing corporation, has been supplying the market with its rubber-based Power Transmission Belts for over three decades.

Its Power Transmission Belts, with wide-usage in the automotive, industrial and agricultural sectors, clearly testifies to two significant success factors. Firstly, it illustrates the prosperous niche that the Company has found for itself. Secondly, it indicates the technological and managerial capability that the Company has developed, clearly putting substance to the nation's drive for a genuine Malaysian-made product.

Kee Fatt Industries is the first and only rubber-based Power Transmission Belts manufacturer in Malaysia. The Company took a challenging road to earning industry-wide recognition. In 1988, the Company became the first rubber product manufacturer in Malaysia to win the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) Quality Management Certification. Also to its credit are two other hard-earned quality certifications including the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) Product Certification License (1985) and the ISO 9002 Quality Management Certification (1997).

The Company's products, manufactured and marketed under the licensed names of BANDO and MAKO, are very well established and recognised in both the replacement and Original Equipment Manufacturers market.

Kee Fatt Industries is one of the earliest and most recognised landmarks in Kulai, a fast-expanding industrial township in the Malaysian state of Johor where it is based. Its factory has over the years been upgraded and expanded to cope with increasing job orders and now has a workforce of some 300 employees.

Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. of Japan is Kee Fatt's technical partner and the strength behind this growing venture. This respected Japanese counterpart continues to provide its support and training resources to Kee Fatt's employees, effecting a transfer of technology that is truly reflective of the spirit of the Kee Fatt-Bando joint venture and technical assistance agreements.

At present, Kee Fatt Industries' greatest strength is its focus on meeting customers' needs and specifications. With continual investment in refining the Company's production with the latest machinery and technical know-how, Kee Fatt Industries is determined to carry on expanding its product range and upgrading its product quality.

Kee Fatt Industries' present markets include the ASEAN countries, China, Europe and the Middle East. With the domestic market growing by leaps and bounds and a great growing potential in its export market, Kee Fatt Industries is certainly geared to make further inroads into both the domestic and overseas markets while continuing to expand its outlets.

Key Milestones

1972	The Company was incorporated.
1978	Joint Venture Agreement and License And Technical Assistance Agreement With Bando Chemical Industries Ltd. of Japan.
1984	Production extended to manufacturing of Industrial and Automotive Power Transmission Belts for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).
1985	The Company was awarded the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) Certification.
1986	Restructuring of Company in line with the National Economic Policy to include Bumiputra shareholdings.
1988	The Company gained Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) Certification.
1997	The company was awarded ISO 9002 Quality Management Systems Certification. Celebrated 25th Anniversary at Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel, Subang Jaya, Selangor.
2000	Expanded its Automotive Power Transmission Belts production capacity and upgraded its equipments to commence the production of Premier Quality Power Ace Rib Belts.
2001	Increased paid-up capital from RM 3 million to 5 million.
2003	Commenced production of Durable Duty Power flex Automotive Power Transmission Belts for Trucks and Buses.