* Selangor - And without an engineering background, neither capital nor equipment
-- It’s been one long uphill climb for Chai Yoon Choong, who went into the business of making cement mixer trucks in 1997 with no engineering qualification and hardly any capital. But he’s still standing today and still delivering... You would need self-belief by the truckload and maybe a litre of Kool-Aid to do what Datuk Chai Yoon Choong, 48, did — get into the engineering business without an engineering background. And with neither capital nor equipment... The managing director of Budikon Power Sdn Bhd left school after Form Three, taking up various odd jobs from being a hawker to a production supervisor at a plastic plant. You could say he found his calling when he worked alongside his brother at a company that fabricated construction equipment and traded in concrete mixer trucks... It was during this time in the 1990s that Chai got involved in a project by the company to manufacture mixer trucks. The idea was to take one such vehicle apart and try to figure it out. Chai was happy to tinker away at it... Ambitious as it was, the project was successful, and the company began making mixer trucks... For Chai, there are still challenges to overcome. The biggest today would be the increasing cost of doing business with the GST and the depreciating ringgit. With the economy slowing down now, he has had to reduce prices to remain competitive... Only time will tell if he will pull through again...
(Photo by YAP CHEE HONG/The Star - Chai and a mixer truck his company makes) -- Rawang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia - The Star, by LIM WING HOOI - 9 Nov 2015
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