Mr Chua had the means to move into a small rented office-workshop, and recruited a project engineer and also an assistant for accounts and admin. Technicians were added to the growing team, 1 in 1987 and another the following year.

,Mr Chua decided that he had developed the market sufficiently to enlist a sales personnel and also another admin personnel

the owner of the co-founding venture in Enge Plas sold his company and also the shareholding in Enge Plas to a businessman in Malaysia,

Enge Plas already had a total staff strength of 10 people, from sales to project- and design engineers, project coordinators and technicians and back-office functions in accounts and administration. This year also marked a new milestone during which Mr Chua went into negotiations with a public listed company in Osaka, Japan, to set up a joint-venture sales office and manufacturing plant for plastic ancillary equipment in either Singapore or Malaysia, with the latter picked because of cost competitiveness. From these decisions, a company was incorporated in Singapore to serve the markets of Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and The Philippines, and another 2 companies were incorporated in Malaysia, one as a manufacturing facility and another as a sales office, both in Seremban Malaysia.

Mr. Chua started an operation in Thailand with a staff strength of 3

Mr Chua managed to bring Kutbi Daruwala to join the Enge Plas team, for which Kutbi has been helming the Singapore operations since, which also oversees the Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines markets