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Osram’s New LED Chip Factory Goes into Operation in Kulim, Malaysia

A total of €370 million was invested in the first stage of completion.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Osram’s new LED chip factory in Kulim, Malaysia, begins operation on time.   “We are both on schedule and within budget,” said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG. “Given our enormous recent growth rates of 19% in the LED business, we are pleased to have the new production capacities. Our investment in Kulim also attests to the technology shift and our transition to becoming a high-tech corporation: At the beginning of this decade, conventional lighting still accounted for 80% of Osram’s busin...

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