It is located around 40 kilometers from the OSRAM plant in Penang.

Kulim is the best place for the new factory with good production conditions, qualified staff and excellent infrastructure. The close location to our production site in Penang ensures an optimal ramp-up. Kulim is ideal to engineer products and technology, bringing together experienced smart minds and passionate hearts: At Kulim we are bringing together innovation and passion.

In Kulim we will be manufacturing chips for blue LEDs on 6-inch wafers, which, equipped with a yellow converter, will form the basis for white LEDs.

Upon completion, the new plant is set to create over 1,500 jobs in Malaysia.

It occupies 100,000m² ground (48 acres). Once the final phase of construction is completed in 2020 the Kulim plant will be the largest and most modern LED chip factory in the world.

• With Kulim OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is taking the first steps toward further growth. Kulim will complement the chip production in Penang and Regensburg. This allows us to cover the whole range of chip technologies (blue, green, white, red, orange, yellow and infrared), as well as surface and volume emitters.
  We will then have a broad global production network comprising three chip factories which will enable us to react with a high degree of flexibility to the rapidly increasing demand in all the different market segments.
• The product will be of a higher quality, partly because of OSRAM's experience and technological edge, but also because the Kulim plant will be the first to bring together all of the production steps involved in chip manufacturing under one roof.
• And last but not least the costs per chip will be coming down, thanks to the high production volumes.