STMICROELECTRONICS set up its first plant in Malaysia in 1974 in the town of Muar, Johor.
As an integral part of ST's Back End Manufacturing & Technology (BEM&T) family, STMicroelectronics Muar (ST Muar) currently employs a workforce of more than 4,000, making it the largest private sector employer in town.
With more than 83,000 square meters of facilities built on a 5.3ha site, ST's assembly and test plant in Muar has an output of about five million units a day, with 70 per cent of its production comprising automotive products.
The ST Muar plant has received numerous awards over the years. They include the Prime Minister's Quality Award (1993), HR Development Award (2000), National Productivity Award (2001) and the Prime Minister's Hibiscus Award (2003), which is Malaysia's premier sustainability prize.
In 2018, ST Muar received two highly prestigious awards - the Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad Award under the Large Employer Category (Manufacturing Sector) and the Innovation and Creativity Award.
The following year, it was awarded the Industry Excellence Award by the prime minister of Malaysia.
In an effort to boost knowledge transfer between the academia and industry, the STMicroelectronics Malaysia IoT Lab was officially launched in March 2018, in collaboration with Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM).
It provides about 400 students and lecturers with dedicated space to build, model, design and test their IoT projects.
ST has also launched many projects with local universities in areas of science, technology, engineering and math education and environmental sustainability.
It opened its first sales and marketing office in Penang in 1989 to better serve the company's electronics manufacturing customers in the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone.
A second sales and marketing office was opened in Petaling Jaya in 1991, and that office had been subsequently relocated to Kuala Lumpur in 2009. The two offices are currently staffed by 17 employees.