Company
MANUFACTURING, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION DIVISION
The Group’s Manufacturing, Marketing and Distribution Division is represented by Advansa Pty Ltd (Australia), Quality Bus & Coach (M) Sdn Bhd and Kumpulan Powernet Berhad.
Advansa Pty Ltd (‘Advansa’) is an Adelaide-based product development, marketing and distribution company. Advansa has two key product brands – ‘Tuff Hardware’ for builder’s hardware and ‘Jarrett Winches and Cranes’ for lifting and pulling equipment. It is market leader in boat trailer and brake winch markets in Australia, with strong brand recognition Australia-wide. Its Tuff Hardware range of products is a leading builders’s hardware brand comprising steel-based timber fasteners and post supports, bracketry, hinges and threaded rod products that address the residential and commercial building industry in Australia.
For more information on Advansa and its product offerings, please visit the Advansa website : www.advansa.com.au
Quality Bus & Coach (M) Sdn Bhd (‘QBC’), a subsidiary of Advance Synergy Capital Berhad, is fabricator and manufacturer of bus and coach bodies, offering a range of vehicles from school buses and mini buses to tailored luxury coaches. QBC is a quality and safety-focused coach builder, with all products based on Australian Design Regulations and Standards, among the most stringent in the world.
Kumpulan Powernet Berhad (‘Powernet’), in which Advance Synergy Capital Berhad has an investment stake, first started as a manufacturer of warp-knitted fabrics from synthetic yarns for the lingerie industry. Through strategic diversification, the company now also produces warp-knitted fabrics that are used in the apparel, household, automotive, shoe-making, bedding and industrial products manufacturing sectors. Powernet was listed on the Second Board of Bursa Malaysia in 2002.
Powernet has fully integrated manufacturing facilities and all processes are done in-house, and is one of the few hot melt laminators in Malaysia which produces knitted/dyed/finished fabrics for the global market. Hot melt lamination is a process of binding materials together through the extremely precise control of the coating of adhesives.
Powernet is certified to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 Certification for “dyed fabrics made of polyester, nylon, nylon/spandex and nylon/lycra; and undyed fabrics made of polyester and nylon”. This standard is a European Standard awarded by Testex, which is the Swiss Textile Testing Institute and Institute of the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile Ecology. In further testimony to the high-quality standards practiced by Powernet, it is also the only Marks & Spencer (UK) accredited laboratory in Malaysia.
For more information on Powernet and its capabilities, please visit the Powernet website: www.powernet.com.my