This is in view of the fact that 70% of the rubber gloves imported by Turkey are from the company.

Founder Lim Wee Chai said he sounded out this possibility at a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan here last night.

Turkey is the fourth largest importer of gloves after the United States, Japan and Brazil.

Top Glove has operations spanning across Malaysia, Thailand, China, the United States and Europe, and has captured 25% of the world’s market share.

It exports to 195 countries, fulfilling demand in both the healthcare and non-healthcare segments.

Lim and Berjaya Group founder Vincent Tan are here on a three-day mission to deliver humanitarian relief aid to Syrian refugees as volunteers of the Tzu Chi Foundation. They are joined by 23 other volunteers.

“We are seriously planning to set up a factory in Turkey. It will help create between 500 and 1,000 jobs and on top of my mind is the opportunity to employ the Syrian refugees as well as Turkish citizens,” he told the Malaysian media covering the Tzu Chi mission.

The Turkish operation would also boost Top Glove’s presence in Europe.