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SENAI, November 11, 2026 – EPG Modular Data Center said on Wednesday that it has completed the structural frame of its RM488 million factory in Senai Airport City, Johor, and that the plant is expected to be finished in the first quarter of 2027.
In a statement reported by Bernama, the company said the installation of the final structural beams marked the completion of the building structure. The factory sits in a Free Industrial Zone at Senai Airport City, part of an integrated industrial area of about 1,100 hectares in Iskandar Malaysia.
The plant covers 107,450 square metres, including 70,000 square metres of production space, and forms part of Senai Airport City’s Phase 3 development. EPG said the facility is expected to be one of the largest modular data-centre manufacturing bases in the sector by production capacity, and to provide more than 800 professional and technical jobs when it is fully operational.
Founder and chairman Alick Wan said the Free Industrial Zone plant was an important step in bringing the company’s manufacturing closer to its customers and the markets it serves. “By combining advanced manufacturing and close collaboration with local partners, we are developing a responsive operating base in Malaysia, while creating a model that can be adapted to customer needs in other markets,” he said.
Senai Airport City chief executive Gan Seng Keong said EPG’s investment was a significant addition to the growing data-centre manufacturing ecosystem at the site.
According to EPG, the master plan comprises five buildings, for sheet-metal production, power transfer unit products, diesel generators, final assembly, and research and development and offices. The factory is intended to use advanced automation, intelligent control systems and automatic welding, with the production line expected to reach an automation rate of at least 80 per cent.
The company also said it intends to develop co-operation with local suppliers gradually and to increase the involvement of Malaysian companies in its supply chain. EPG Modular Data Center is a provider of prefabricated modular data-centre infrastructure, with research centres and manufacturing operations that include Malaysia.
Wednesday’s announcement is a topping-out milestone rather than the start of production. Completion remains scheduled for the first quarter of 2027, and the company has not, in the statement carried by Bernama, given a date for the beginning of commercial output or named the first customers for the Senai plant.
The RM488 million figure is the value of the Senai factory as reported by Bernama. Wednesday’s news is that the structure has been topped out, not that the plant is open. Between now and the first quarter of 2027 the company still has to complete the fitting-out of the five planned buildings and the automated production lines described in the statement.
Johor’s Iskandar Malaysia region has attracted a cluster of data-centre and related manufacturing projects in recent years. Senai Airport City’s chief executive presented EPG’s plant as part of that ecosystem. The company, for its part, presented the Free Industrial Zone site as a way of manufacturing closer to customers in the region, while leaving open the possibility of adapting the model for other markets.
Source: EPG’s statement, as reported by Bernama and the New Straits Times.
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