(25-8-2017)
大马经济冷风刺骨寒！全马最大印务公司《天华印务》突宣布倒闭，四厂大裁员5千人！
英美烟草、希捷及西方数码外资集团相续撤资连锁反应发酵！失去最大客户来源的全马最大印务集团《天华印务》今日忽然宣布倒闭！厂内237名各级员工失业断粮！四家撤资及倒闭的大企业，总共造成5千人打破饭碗！
天华印务Tian Wah Press是大马上市公司，英美烟草集团是它显着股份持有者。天华印务主要承印香烟包装纸，还有电脑软件包装原料。
天华印务公司早些时候已经把主要业务转移到印度尼西亚、越南及泰国。随着主要客户《英美烟草公司》宣布即将在今年底全面撤出大马市场，还有大客户美国硬盘公司《希捷》Seagate和西方数码Western Digital也关闭槟州及芙蓉的大厂之后，天华印务没有了主要客源，印务厂已经没有存在的必要了。
希捷与西方数码公司先后宣布即将撤出大马市场，将生产线转移到泰国。希捷将关闭槟州与芙蓉两座工厂，裁员人数高达3,000人！而西方数码的撤资也将造成1,200各级员工被裁退。
而英美烟草公司也已经宣布将裁退属下400名员工；如今加上天华印务也完蛋，再有237名各级员工失业！
单单是这四家大型外资及本地资本公司倒闭撤资，失业断粮的人数就高达将近5,000人！
这样的残酷实况，比照首相纳吉不断吹嘘的《大马经济前景欣欣向荣》，实在是莫大的讽刺！
天华印务公司向吉隆坡股票交易所提呈的报告书指出，集团最大的三个客户，即英美烟草、希捷和西方数码公司先后撤资到新加坡、越南及印度尼西亚，是造成集团决定关闭印刷厂的最主要因素。
《没有了大客源，我们发现依靠零星的散户订单已经无法生存。》天华印务公司表示：《倒闭已经是无法避免的结局。》
天华印务承诺将按照劳工法令规定，给予237名各级员工资遣。
国家银行公布“大马雇员财务承受力”的调查报告发现，约51%受访者有备不时之需的基金，但却有高达76%者承认要立即拿出1000令吉现金应急有一定的难度…
94%的大马上班族若失去工作半年的话，无法养活自己。
国家银行公布“大马雇员财务承受力”的调查报告发现，约51%受访者有备不时之需的基金，但却有高达76%者承认要立即拿出1000令吉现金应急有一定的难度。
76%难立即拿出千元
报告指，大部分的大马雇员没有一套适当的财务计划，只有6%的大马上班族在失业半年还能过活，94%则在失去工作半年，就面对经济问题。报告补充，受访者往往追求短暂的满足感，而忽略了未雨绸缪的重要性。
报告指，大马人负担很高的债务，约有40%受访者的债务，比年收入高出14倍，负债人当中分别有高达93%受访者的每月工资不超过3000令吉及家庭收入不超过5000令吉。报告也指出，约有19%受访者坦承他们有很多债务，只有26%受访者能在每月杪摊还信用卡债务。
KUALA LUMPUR: Tien Wah Press Holdings Bhd plans to close its 57-year-old printing business in Petaling Jaya under its wholly-owned subsidiary Tien Wah Press (Malaya) Sdn Bhd (TWPM).
It told Bursa Malaysia in a filing that this followed the closure of the Petaling Jaya factory of its major customer, British American Tobacco Group.
Tien Wah will now shift printing done here to its factories in Vietnam and Indonesia. The company said 237 employees would be made redundant.
News of this latest closure comes on the heels of the planned closure of two major factories in Penang.
It was reported on July 15 that hard disk maker Seagate Technology Plc and computer data storage firm Western Digital Corp (WD) planned to relocate the bulk of their operations to Thailand.
Seagate is expected to close its plants in Penang and Negri Sembilan, affecting more than 3,000 Malaysian staff. WD is expected to lay off 400 Malaysian staff and 800 foreign workers from its Penang manufacturing site.
Tien Wah told Bursa Malaysia: 「Following the cessation of its major customer’s operation in Malaysia and [its] subsequent shifts in production facilities to Singapore, Korea and Indonesia, the group acknowledged that there is no requirement for duplication of a printing base in Malaysia.
「Hence, [the group] had initiated transfers of its majority production volumes from TWPM to Vietnam and Indonesia to improve its strategic position to service the customer and reduce the group’s operating cost over the longer term.
「The board is of the view that the re-organisation of its production footprint which involves the cessation of TWPM’s printing business is therefore timely.」
TWPM constitutes about 13.6% of Tien Wah’s latest audited net assets of the group as at Dec 31, 2016.
TWPM specialises in printing cigarette cartons and consumer goods packaging, cartons, labels packaging and advertising materials.
In March last year, British American Tobacco announced it would close its factory by the second half of this year following a difficult business environment. It said it would lay off 230 workers.
