{"id":1551,"date":"2026-01-20T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/oerlikon-balzers-picks-iskandar-malaysia-for-one-stop-centre\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:03:07","slug":"oerlikon-balzers-picks-iskandar-malaysia-for-one-stop-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/oerlikon-balzers-picks-iskandar-malaysia-for-one-stop-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Oerlikon Balzers Picks Iskandar Malaysia for One-stop Centre\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iskandar Malaysia was chosen for Oerlikon Balzers, a well-known supplier of Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) coatings, newest one-stop centre.<\/p>\n<p>The strategic location between two technically-advanced countries, the strong infrastructure and the expectations for it to meet customer needs across the regions were the reason why Iskandar Malaysia was chosen for the centre said Balzer Industrial Solutions business unit head, Marc Desrayaud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur operations in Kulai are expected to meet the high demand from the electronics industry, where coating equipment are needed to manufacture products such as computer hard disc drives,\u201d he told members of the media after the centre\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the launch were Iskandar regional development authority chief executive officer Datuk Ismail Ibrahim and Malaysian investment development authority Johor director Rozano Yahaya.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail commended Oerlikon Balzers on its choice of Iskandar Malaysia for its centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis proves that Johor has become the choice of investors due to the state\u2019s strong infrastructure including airports, ports and good communication network,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Desrayaud commented that a factory and customer service centre would be included at the one-stop centre in i-Park, Bandar Indahpura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investment for this centre is about five million Swiss francs (1 Swiss franc = RM4.11) and we go for a large investment because we believe in the potential of this region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Orelikon Balzers currently operates 108 coating centres in 35 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iskandar Malaysia was chosen for Oerlikon Balzers, a well-known supplier of Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) coatings, newest one-stop centre. The strategic location between two technically-advanced countries, the strong infrastructure and the expectations for it to meet customer needs across the regions were the reason why Iskandar Malaysia was chosen for the centre said Balzer Industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}