On the sideline of Malaysia most awaited manufacturing technology event – Intech 4.0 in Kuala Lumpur, CommoPlast has an opportunity to speak to Mr. Jason Tan, Managing Director at Best Plastic Industry Sdn Bhd – the manufacturer behind the renown household brand – Best Ware.
Q: Starting as a humble manufacturer of household products in Perak, Ipoh, Best Ware becomes one of the major brands in Malaysia. Can you share with us what drives such a desirable result?
A: For Best Ware, our motor has always been making people’s life easier and more enjoyable. Since the incubation of the company, we put heavy focus on the quality aspect; therefore, we only use virgin materials for all of our products and making sure our products are made to last. This helps us to gain trust from customers throughout the years.
Q: The Malaysian manufacturing sector is moving toward the automation and digitalization process to increase production efficiency, which would help to lower operating costs in the longer run. Is Best Ware in the transformation process?
A: Our plant is not fully automated yet, but partially digitalized. For example, to ensure the consistency of the product quality, we save the machine settings for that particular product in a hard disk and would insert into the machine in the next production. The machine would then load the exact settings, which reduces human errors during the process. All of our machines have this function and we do see better production yield.
Q. Do you have any plan to fully digitalize your plant since the partial high-tech adoption show positive outcome?
A: Fully digitalization required a greater extent of investment and we have to look into it thoroughly. At the moment, the global market is a little slack, which holds us back a little. Having said so, the plan is always on the table, as we also wanted to reduce the dependency on manual labor, especially when minimum wages keep rising.
Best Plastic Industry is now offering more than 350 products under the brand name Best Ware, including kitchenware, tumblers, trays, pails and a variety of different sizes of containers.
For more information, please visit the company’s official website http://www.bestwareplastic.com