How this index is compiled

Where the records come from

Every entry is compiled from public business listings — the same records a Google Maps search returns. Nothing here is submitted by the business, paid for, or written by us about an individual company. The manufacturing slice shown on this site is filtered from a larger shared dataset covering Malaysian B2B businesses across all verticals, which is why a company here may also appear on a sister site under a different trade.

499 of the 1,406 records (35%) are filed under more than one industry vertical, and 173 carry no manufacturing sub-category at all — those fall back to the primary category on their public record rather than being labelled "manufacturer" by default.

What each record actually holds

Coverage is uneven, and knowing which fields are thin matters more than the headline count:

Field	Records	Coverage
Phone number	1,345	96%
Google rating	1,326	94%
Opening hours	1,182	84%
Photograph	1,154	82%
Website	985	70%

Across the index there are 70,024 Google reviews and the mean rating among rated records is 4.43. That average is too high and too tightly clustered to separate suppliers, which is why nothing here is sorted by star rating alone.

How listings are ordered

Where a page shows more than one manufacturer, the order is computed, identical on every build, and not for sale. The weight is the rating multiplied by the base-10 logarithm of the review count, plus a small constant for having a photograph on record:

signal = rating × log₁₀(reviews + 1) + 0.6 if a photo exists

The logarithm is the point. It means a manufacturer with 400 reviews outranks one with 40, but not by ten times — depth of public record counts, without letting the largest firms bury everyone else. 542 records (39%) carry fewer than five reviews, and they are not penalised beyond what this formula does; in B2B a thin review history usually means the customers are other businesses, not that the supplier is weak.

Why some pages do not exist

A page is only built where there is enough inventory to be worth landing on. A town needs 10 manufacturers before it gets a hub, a category needs 5 in a state before that combination gets a page, and 10 before a category-in-town page is built. Below those lines the page would be a near-empty result, so it is not generated and nothing links to it.

What we do not do

• We do not write descriptions of individual companies. The record holds a name, address, tags and a rating — "specialises in precision tooling" inferred from that would be a false claim about a real business.
• We take no commission, receive no payment for placement, and are not an agent. Contact any manufacturer directly.
• We do not verify certifications, licences or capacity. Where a page mentions what to ask for, that is category-level guidance, never a statement that a given company holds it.

What this index cannot show you

It maps the Malaysian manufacturers who maintain a public listing. That is not the same population as Malaysian manufacturing. The clearest example is Penang: it holds a small share of the records here despite hosting one of Southeast Asia's densest electronics bases, because that base sits in free industrial zones, takes no walk-in enquiries, and has no reason to keep a public profile. Read this index as a good map of the manufacturers who want to be found, and a poor one of those who do not need to be.

Corrections and removals

If a record here is wrong, out of date, or you want it removed, write to [email protected] with the listing URL. Seek Factory is operated as part of the Seek Business network, and that mailbox reaches the same people. Removal requests are actioned without argument — we hold no claim on a business's presence here.