Malaysia's Karex: COVID lockdowns dented condom demand

CEO of world's biggest maker tries rubber gloves to boost bottom line

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Karex CEO Goh Miah Kiat says condom manufacturing plants in Malaysia and Thailand are running at near capacity as global orders rebound. (Photo by P Prem Kumar)

P PREM KUMAR, Nikkei staff writer

KUALA LUMPUR -- Spending more time indoors under lockdowns, closures and other curbs might seem a natural catalyst for more sex -- and condom use -- but the world's biggest maker of the prophylactics says otherwise.

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