ConnectCounty to set up department in UKM

For Immediate Release
September 07, 2005

MESDAQ-bound ConnectCounty Holdings Bhd (CCHB) plans to invest RM500,000 to set up a new development department in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's (UKM) Institute of Microengineering and Nanoeletronics (Imen).

The investment, sealed at a recent signing of a memorandum of understanding between UKM and CCHB, is to furnish the Imen centre with high-end equipment and software to create and test new products in cables and connectors.

"We see this investment as a long-term relationship with UKM. In our business where high level engineering expertise is constantly required, we see this collaboration as a prospective avenue for sharing resources and exchanging knowledge on high technology engineering," group managing director of CCHB Ang Chuang Juay said in a statement.

The new department will eventually serve as a centre for students' practical training outside a controlled lab.

"We are currently concentrating in a very niche area of the industry where our expertise lies. We are able to provide total solutions from design and development work to manufacturing of customised cables and connector that requires high level of engineering expertise," said Ang.

Ang said the company's customers were mainly in next generation broadband network products, multimedia and data satellite products, storage devices and professional audio equipment and personal computer peripherals.