Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad


Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad is a leading corporation listed on the Main Market of the Malaysian stock exchange, Bursa Malaysia, and is a major private-sector player in Sarawak, the largest state in Malaysia.
Cahya Mata Sarawak literally means "the light of Sarawak's eye" in the Malay language or "Cahya Mata" also figuratively means "the child of".

Early Beginnings

CMSB has evolved from a single product manufacturer of ordinary Portland cement beginning in 1974 to become a diversified corporation.
The company's portfolio has since grown into more than 35 companies involved in cement manufacturing, construction materials, trading, construction, road maintenance, property development, financial services, smelting, telco infrastructure, education and other services.
Cement manufacturing remains CMSB's core business; undertaken by its wholly owned subsidiary CMS Cement Sdn Bhd.

Cement production

In 1974, CMSB was incorporated as Cement Manufacturing Sarawak. It was the first cement company ever in Sarawak. Throughout these years, the company has experiencing the cement productions until it was known as well-diversified cement company. Its first product is Portland Cement.
In 1996, Cement Manufacturing Sarawak has changed its name to Cahya Mata Sarawak when it starts to looking beyond the cement manufacturing as it start to providing other services.
Currently, the cement production was produced and issued by CMS Cement Sdn Bhd. Moreover, CMSB also have many of its own cement plants at entire Sarawak to assure its status as leading cement company in the state.

Construction

PPPES Works Sdn Bhd is the construction company of CMSB. Like other contractor companies, it was established as a humble construction company. It had involving in several projects during it's status as the construction company in Sarawak Economic Development Corporation. CMSB adopts PPESW after agreed to handover the company from SEDC.
It has involving in both civil and private projects, including CMSB's headquarters Wisma Mahmud and Sarawak State Museum.

Roads and highway project

CMSB has been a main contractor for highway projects in Sarawak, including road maintenance and constructing new roads.
At Mukah division, the CMSB's role as a main contractor of the road maintenance has been taken over by a different company, PJP Barisan HCM JV Sdn Bhd, Protasco Berhad's associate company, from 2019 to 2029 for a long term. It was one of the strategies taken by Sarawak State Government and CMSB to focusing the company to the biggest and multi-million Pan Borneo Highway project, together with Selangor-based construction company, Bina Puri Sdn Bhd via an associate company, PPESW BPSB JV Sdn Bhd. Their role is the main contractor for Sg Awik to Bintangor Junction in work package contract. It is the one of the 11 Pan Borneo highway work packages and the length of the highway is.
PPESW BPSB JV Sdn Bhd is flanked together with Endaya TRC PK JV Sdn Bhd and HSL DMIA JV Sdn Bhd.