Sunright was incorporated as KES Systems & Service Pte Ltd on 9 March 1978. The Company was one of the pioneering companies in the burn-in industry in Singapore. Burn-in is a process to weed out potentially weak semiconductors by applying voltages and signals at elevated temperatures. The Group is now the largest independent (unrelated to customers) provider of burn-in service in the world on account of its turnover and assets deployed in the burn-in business based on a comparison with its major competitors using their published accounts. The Company's principal activities consist of investment holding, provision of management services and research and development in burn-in and test related activities. The principal activities of the subsidiaries consist of the manufacturing of burn-in equipment, assembly of electronic and electrical components, provision of burn-in service, provision of semi-conductor testing service, provision of management service and research and development in burn-in and test-related activities, and trading in the distribution of high-technology electronic products.The Group's burn-in and semi-conductor testing services are in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and USA.