Dragons bless Malaysia facility

The new Avon Engineered Rubber Malaysian office, warehousing and laboratory facilities have been formally opened in Penang. Ribbon-cutting formalities were led on behalf of the company by Kevin Harrop, the Group Operations Director of AER’s parent company Avon Group.

Good fortune should accompany the new facility, which was blessed in line with Malaysian custom with the arrival of two traditional dragons who were welcomed and fed for good luck. 

AER Managing Director Vince Minchella said: “The official opening of our new Malaysian base is an important milestone for AER as we are ideally placed to rise to growing demand for our products in the South East Asian market and beyond.

“We are very proud of the progress our Malaysian team have been making and they did themselves, AER and Avon Group as a whole proud by staging a fantastic opening which bodes well for our future.

“It was great to see our formidable Malaysian colleagues making sure we stick to local traditions and blessing the visiting dragons means we’ve got off to a perfect start in new surroundings which we can be proud of and will power future expansion.”

Preparation of the facility and orchestration of the ceremonials was led by AER’s Asia Business Development Manager Mei Bashiri with support from husband David Bashiri, AER’s Asia Technical Engineer.