Batu Berendam

Batu Berendam is a town and suburb of Malacca City in the Malaysian state of Malacca, lying about seven kilometres north of the city centre. Its name is usually translated as immersed rock. It is best known as the home of Malacca Airport, the state's principal airport, which opened in 1952, and of the Batu Berendam Free Industrial Zone, built in 1973, which hosts mostly overseas-based electronics factories, among them the German company Infineon Technologies. Until the 1970s it was a rural village whose main economic activity was rice farming. In the colonial era it was reached by train from Pulau Sebang until the Imperial Japanese Army dismantled the line during World War II, and in 1990 it became a centre of aerospace manufacturing when CTRM set up a factory beside the airport, which now makes components for Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft.