I co-chaired a roundtable of ASEAN policymakers on the steel industry with the Secretary-General of the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) Yeoh Wee Jin and MITI’s Deputy Secretary-General Dato’ Hanafi Sakri. While the steel industry associations in ASEAN engage each other via…
I would like to welcome all delegates from around ASEAN and beyond to Kuala Lumpur to attend the inaugural ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel and 2025 ASEAN Iron and Steel Forum. This ASEAN Policymakers Conference on Steel is hosted by the South East Asia Iron…
It is a pleasure to address you today. Last year, also at the MISIF conference, I identified two critical challenges the steel industry is facing: overcapacity and green transition. These challenges persist, but over the past year, the Malaysian government, in collaboration with industry stakeholders,…
The climate crisis is not a fiction but the same prisoner’s dilemma applies if we continue to see the environment as an externality. The same old cliches would see dealing with climate as a cost and keep debating who should bear the cost. What if…
I would like to congratulate the Malaysian Iron and Steel Industry Federation (MISIF) for publishing the 15th Report on Status and Outlook of the Malaysian Iron and Steel Industry 2024 This is a biennial publication by MISIF which was first published in 1994. The iron…
The Malaysia Steel Council (MSC) is a consultative body constituted by the MITI, government agencies and the representatives of the steel industry. MITI Minister Tengku Zafrul Tengku Aziz has kindly appointed me to chair the council from 2023. Since the previous Council meeting on 13…