KUALA LUMPUR: Supermax Corp Bhd via its US-based subsidiary Maxter Healthcare Inc will build an advance manufacturing facility in Brazoria County, Texas, the United States.

       Supermax said the new facility would be the company’s 18th manufacturing plant worldwide and its first in the United States.

       The 215-acre manufacturing facility will showcase cutting edge capabilities through expanded use of artificial intelligence and robotic engineering and will comprise eight buildings, according to Supermax.

       “Phase one will begin construction in the second quarter of 2022 with glove production expected to start in the second quarter of 2023,” it said in a filing Bursa Malaysia yesterday. — Bernama