“Many university graduates believe whatever they learn at university or college will have limited application in their subsequent careers. My experience, however, was very different,” recalls the executive director and chief executive officer of Oiltek International.
Even after spending more than two decades of his career in the agri-commodities sector, Henry Yong Khai Weng continues to be fascinated by vegetable oils and their wide-ranging impact on daily life.
After graduating with a first-class honours degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Malaya in 1997, Yong serendipitously decided to enter the vegetable oil industry.

