About the bloc
Kedah manufactures. Kelantan farms and serves. Terengganu refines. Perlis trades across the border. Four states that are not four of the same thing, which is the reason coordinating them produces something none of them has alone.
SG4 Group Sdn. Bhd. is the platform through which they act as one: a single counterparty for investors, and a single table for the four state governments.
For decades development concentrated in the established central hubs. Resource security, supply chain diversification and new logistics corridors have since altered the map.
The SG4 Business & Economic Forum is where the policies, partnerships and capital required to activate this frontier are put in the same room. Not a venue for theoretical discussion, but a working session between the people who can commit.
Why October 2026
Resource security
Three of the four hold rare earth element potential, and the fourth holds the dolomite used to process it. What is undecided is whether the value is captured upstream and exported raw, or processed here.
Supply chains
Trade tension is forcing a realignment. The northern corridor, anchored by Kedah's semiconductor cluster at Kulim, is positioned to absorb it. Kedah drew RM27.8 billion of approved investment in 2025, fifth nationally.
Infrastructure
Kelantan and Terengganu connect to Kuantan Port and Port Klang for the first time. A corridor that has never had industrial-scale freight gets it, and the east coast stops being the far side of the peninsula.
The bloc, state by state
RM56.3B · +4.1% real growth
1.5M of working age
#5 fastest-growing manufacturing sector in Malaysia
RM40.6B · +1.6% real growth
840,000 of working age
Highest manufacturing concentration in SG4 (35.7% of GDP)
RM29.8B · +4.1% real growth
1.25M of working age
#3 fastest-growing manufacturing sector in Malaysia
RM6.7B · +2.0% real growth
210,000 of working age
#6 fastest-growing manufacturing sector in Malaysia
Sector shares are of each state's own output, 2025, constant 2015 prices, normalised across the five headline sectors. Growth is against 2024. Source: Department of Statistics Malaysia.
What the forum produces
The MoU signing sits inside the programme at 10.10am, in front of the room, rather than in a press release afterwards.
Invest Kedah, Invest Terengganu, Invest Kelantan and Invest Perlis present together, so a proposal spanning two states does not need two conversations.
Each panel is moderated and scoped to a decision the room can actually influence: financing, semiconductors, SME survival, critical minerals.
26 October 2026, at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Registration has not opened; leave your details and the Secretariat will write before it is announced publicly.