Handy Man
To build Kossan Rubber into a glovemaking giant, Lim Kuang Sia drew on his chemistry and engineering skills. But first he had to escape form a remote island
Back in the 1950s and 1960s it wasn’t often that someone would find his way off tiny island of Pulau Ketam and go on to make a name for himself on the Malaysian mainland, but Lim Kuang Sia did. He grew up as one of 11 brothers and sisters and remembers the stench of rotten fish perpetually hanging over the island. Every morning at the crack of dawn a horde of men would go out to sea and bring home the catch.
When he finished primary school at age 13, he, too, was called upon to follow the family tradition. “My father did it and so did my grandfather. They had never stepped out of the village.” For Lim, however, the boats going the other way, to Port Klang on the mainland, looked more promising. “ I want to explore and discover the world.”
Handy Man
To build Kossan Rubber into a glovemaking giant, Lim Kuang Sia drew on his chemistry and engineering skills. But first he had to escape form a remote island
Back in the 1950s and 1960s it wasn’t often that someone would find his way off tiny island of Pulau Ketam and go on to make a name for himself on the Malaysian mainland, but Lim Kuang Sia did. He grew up as one of 11 brothers and sisters and remembers the stench of rotten fish perpetually hanging over the island. Every morning at the crack of dawn a horde of men would go out to sea and bring home the catch.
When he finished primary school at age 13, he, too, was called upon to follow the family tradition. “My father did it and so did my grandfather. They had never stepped out of the village.” For Lim, however, the boats going the other way, to Port Klang on the mainland, looked more promising. “ I want to explore and discover the world.”
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