Established as Cement Manufacturers Sarawak Sdn Bhd

Sarawak State Financial Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Bujang Mohd Nor called the meeting to attention. With him in his office in the Secretariat Building, Kuching, was Datuk Haji Mohd Amin Satem, Executive Chairman of the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) and four others: Datuk Haji Yahya bin Haji Lampong and Philip Lee, both from the Sabah Economic Development Corporation (SEDCO), and Peter Koh and Nicholas Gunjew of the SEDC. It was 9.00 a.m. on Thursday, 31 October 1974. This was the first Board of Directors’ meeting of Cement Manufacturers Sarawak Sendirian Berhad. The company had been incorporated a little over three weeks earlier, on 8 October 1974, with its registered address at the 2nd floor of the Electra House building, Power Street, Kuching. CMS was jointly owned on a 50-50 basis by the SEDC and SEDCO, with Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Bujang Mohd Nor and Datuk Haji Mohd Amin Satem its original directors.