APPLIED Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied International Holdings, has sub-contracted a research and development project to three Israeli electronics companies.
Applied will be one of the first Hongkong electronics companies to use Israeli technology. It will spend more than $1 million on the project to design security devices.
If the outcome, due in three months, meets the company's expectations, Applied Electronics will set up a research and development centre in Israel to design electronic home and security consumer goods.
Israeli scientists will be trained in Hongkong before working in the centre.
The products will be marketed by Applied's 80 per cent-owned subsidiary Quorum International, a marketing company based in the United States.
''A multi-level marketing company such as ours must constantly introduce novel goods that cannot be obtained by the consumer through mass merchants or regular retail channels,'' said Applied Electronics executive vice-president Norman Shink.