LEM opens state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Malaysia

Establishing the new facility in Malaysia exemplifies LEM‘s strategic expansion strategy in response to the rising worldwide demand for the company’s primary offerings, namely current and voltage sensors. The growing demand for these products in various areas, including automation, automotive, traction, and renewable energy, is driven by the necessity to reduce carbon emissions in transportation, industry, energy production, and private life.

LEM decided to make a significant investment in the state of Penang since they acknowledged the region’s proficiency in chip manufacturing.

LEM plans to expand its workforce from approximately 70 employees in April 2024 to over 200 employees by March 2025, and eventually surpass 500 employees. Additionally, the company anticipates that sales from the facility will exceed €200 million. The new factory, spanning 11,800 sqm, has already made arrangements to expand by an additional 5,000 sqm of land. It is equipped with a cutting-edge logistic system that includes automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) on the shop floor. These AGVs efficiently transfer components from the warehouse to the advanced production lines. LEM Malaysia is also the pioneer in the implementation of our new ERP system and will generate a significant portion of its energy using solar panels.

LEM CEO Frank Rehfeld emphasizes the importance of ongoing investment in cutting-edge facilities to provide top-tier solutions for various dynamically evolving industries. According to him, LEM is constantly seeking methods to ensure the security of the company’s operations while expanding its presence worldwide. The recently established Penang factory represents the most recent undertaking in this pursuit.

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LEM believes that establishing a technologically advanced facility in this area, which can independently test its semiconductors, will greatly enhance the company’s integrated current sensing business. The plant complies with the Green Building Index (GBI), which is Malaysia’s officially recognized green assessment methodology for buildings in the industry. The building now has 300kW of solar energy systems installed, and an additional 400kW is planned for installation in 2026. In addition, the building utilizes rainwater collection and building automation to manage energy use efficiently. The establishment of this new plant serves as evidence of LEM’s dedication to its CO2 roadmap, which forms an integral component of its overarching mission to facilitate the transition of customers and society at large toward a more sustainable future.

Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph. D. in Physics and is a Telecommunications Engineer. He has worked on various international projects in the field of gravitational waves research, designing a thermal compensation system (TCS) and data acquisition and control systems, and on others about x-ray microbeams in collaboration with Columbia University, high voltage systems and space technologies for communications and motor control with ESA/INFN. TCS has been applied to the Virgo and LIGO experiments, which detected gravitational waves for the first time and earned the Nobel Prize in 2017. Since 2007, he has been a reviewer for scientific publications for academics such as Microelectronics Journal and IEEE journals. Moreover, he has collaborated with different electronic industry companies and several Italian and English blogs and magazines, such as Electronics World, Elektor, Mouser, Automazione Industriale, Electronic Design, All About Circuits, Fare Elettronica, Elettronica Oggi, and PCB Magazine, as a technical writer/editor, specializing in several topics of electronics and technology. From 2015 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Firmware and Elettronica Open Source, which are technical blogs and magazines for the electronics industry. He participated in many conferences as a speaker of keynotes for different topics such as x-ray, space technologies, and power supplies. Maurizio enjoys writing and telling stories about Power Electronics, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Automotive, IoT, Embedded, Energy, and Quantum Computing. Maurizio has been an AspenCore content editor since 2019. He is currently editor-in-chief of Power Electronics News and EEWeb and a correspondent for EE Times. He is the host of PowerUP, a podcast about power electronics, and the promoter and organizer of the PowerUP Virtual Conference, a summit where each year great speakers talk about the power electronics design trends. Moreover, he has contributed to a number of technical and scientific articles as well as a couple of Springer books on energy harvesting and data acquisition and control systems.