A total of 170 projects with investments amounting to RM5.2 billion were approved in Q1 2010 in the manufacturing sector. Foreign investments amounted to RM3.2 billion (61.5%) while domestic investments totaled RM2 billion (38.5%).
Leading investment areas were E&E products (RM1,700.2 million), basic metal products (RM1,090.7 million), food manufacturing (RM578.3 million), rubber products (RM425.9 million) and chemical and chemical products (RM393 million). Collectively, these projects represented 80.5% of the value of total approved investments.
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