SIRIM Berhad is a premier industrial research and technology organization in Malaysia, a wholly-owned company of the Malaysian Government under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) of Malaysia. SIRIM is one member of the World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organizations (WAITRO) in Asia and the Pacific.

The meeting discussed on various mutual-interested fields e.g. railway technology, R&D on sustainable development, testing, certification, and metrology. Both sides expressed the intention to renew the MOU of collaboration for the respective years.

The delegation had a site visit to Railway Transportation System Testing Centre (RTTC) of TISTR, the leading railway technology centre in ASEAN. The government of Thailand and Malaysia intend to drive the collaborative working on this technology since railway is essential for commercial, logistics, and transportation between the countries and across the regions.