Bintulu Development Authority (BDA) General Manager Datuk Mohidin Ishak said today that other industries had discovered Bintulu and are setting up home here.
“For the last 30 years, the oil and gas industry made up the greater part of Bintulu’s development, catapulting Bintulu’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to seven percent, surpassing Sarawak’s at five to six percent,” he told Bernama.
Bintulu’s most recent investors included Japan’s Tokuyama Corporation with RM6.5 billion for two polycrystalline silicon plants, Press Metal Berhad with a US$1.6 billion aluminium smelting plant, Hong Kong-based Asia Minerals with US$200 million manganese ore processing plants at the new industrial park at Samalaju, in the Similajau coastal headland.
He said 10 of the 17 new investors had commenced earthwork preparations or actual construction while the new deepwater port at Samalaju would cater to the activities of the aluminium and manganese smelting plants taking shape in the new industrial park.
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