MALAYSIA-based ESCATEC is reaping the dividends of its long-term strategic plans to offer major OEM brands a viable alternative to the Tier One titans of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) sector.
Established in 1983 in Malaysia, the group has been steadily expanding its repertoire of expertise, services, and production locations. It is now an EMS partner of global repute to numerous market leading OEM brands.
The group has grown from one entity in Penang to three entities located in Penang and Johor with more future plans in store. ESCATEC has also diversified their activities from production of electrical and electronics (E&E) products to medical devices in Malaysia.
Central to ESCATEC’s strategy is a willingness to invest in industry leading technologies, machinery and modern production plants tied to a well-trained and skilled workforce and a top-down conviction to deliver the very best in customer satisfaction.
The group now has some 2,500 employees – a high percentage of which are technical, design, operational and production professionals. It boasts of a fully integrated EMS value and supply chain with design and development (D&D) activities at many of its production facilities in Malaysia, Switzerland, the UK and the Czech Republic.
ESCATEC’s approach to simultaneously grow on these multiple fronts has enabled it to gain and keep customers from a broad and extensive range of market segments as it now targets to achieve annual revenues of US$500 mil.
The group’s current focus is on supporting the global transportation, storage, and distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine via a partnership with Iceland-based Controlant, a global leader in real-time supply chain visibility solutions.
Controlant’s solutions are utilised to monitor and ensure the safe transportation and quality of the vaccine as it is distributed globally.
ESCATEC Electronics in Bayan Lepas (Penang) is the volume manufacturer of specialised cold-chain data logging devices supplied to Controlant. On Controlant’s end, it has a partnership with Pfizer for the transportation, storage, and distribution of its vaccine.
These data logging devices are critical to ensure visibility with the crucial high volume production being time sensitive to ensure uninterrupted global supply of the vaccine.
ESCATEC also recently fully acquired the JJS Manufacturing Group in the UK. Based in Bedford, JJS Manufacturing is an industry specialist in the electro-mechanical assembly of large complex equipment and operates several production facilities in the UK and the Czech Republic.
“Our customers are mainly from Europe and North America and they have been asking us to expand further in Europe as that is a major market for many of them,” commented ESCATEC’s CEO Patrick Macdonald.
“We became aware of JJS Manufacturing and we felt their corporate values, expertise, modern facilities and skilled workforce would be a great fit with ESCATEC and would generate significant new business opportunities.
“I am pleased to say the acquisition went very smoothly and we have now embarked on the process of assimilating JJS Manufacturing into the ESCATEC family.”
ESCATEC currently operates two modern facilities in Johor Bahru via its subsidiary, ESCATEC Mechatronics which are already running at full tilt.
For now the group is looking at setting up a third production plant in Johor Bahru to help cope with new customer orders. Hence, a new production facility in Johor Bahru is also on the cards, adds Macdonald – July 2, 2021
