A peek into Singapore’s high tech manufacturing marvel
Singapore, IPOS and A*Star, briefed us Beyonics, said, “We have a very interested Developed by Singapore’s Sembcorp
about the working of different government company to partner with us for bio-medical Industries, which is majority owned by
agencies on capacity building of Singapore’s products, but no plans to do a JV in EMS Temasek Holdings, Batamindo Industrial
EPE supply base. At the end of the in future.” He added, “Reliability, quality Park (BIP) is the pioneer industrial park
presentation and discussion, we had a short and supply chain is important in medical in Batam. BIP is a huge beneficiary of the
tour of SIMTech facilities as well. product manufacturing, not price.” Framework Agreement between Indonesia
Thereafter, we headed for Beyonics After a quick lunch at Singapore’s and Singapore on Economic Cooperation
Technology Limited, a leading EMS Harbourfront Center, which acts as a to develop Special Economic Zones in
company in Asia offering one-stop gateway to Santosa Island and Ferry Bintan, Batam and Karimun Islands in
manufacturing solutions. Established in ride-in & out of Singapore, we set out June 2006. It was conferred Free Trade
1981, the company is one of the world’s for Batam Island in Indonesia. At the Zone status in August 2007, and offers
largest manufacturers of HDD base plates immigration checkpoint for ferry ride-out preferential duties under the Generalised
and an EMS provider for HDD PCBA of Singapore, we met Hung Nyet Hiong, System of Preferences and ASEAN Free
with an estimated world market share of director, engineering, of CEI Contract Trade Agreement. Other special features
10-15%. The company is also a leading Manufacturing Limited (CEI), who are no value added tax (VAT), protection of
EMS for wireless/RF products in South accompanied us, along with his colleague investments and 100% foreign ownership.
East Asia and is an FDA-registered contract Lam Kwok Wing, during their facility visit The park has single-handedly transformed
manufacturer for bio-medical products in Batam, Indonesia. the economy of the island by attracting
assembly services. CEI’s manufacturing facility is located global manufacturers, which has created
Here, we met CP Goh, chief executive at PT Surya Teknologi, Batamindo employment for more than 60,000 workers
officer of Beyonics Technology Limited, Industrial Park in Mukakuning, Batam. and contributes significantly to Indonesia’s
who has the sobriquet to be the “Best
Financial Brain” in Asia’s EMS industry.
Prior to joining Beyonics, CP spent nearly
18 years at Flextronics, where he held a
number of senior leadership positions
in finance and operations. Under his
leadership since 2000, Beyonics transformed
from a precision engineering company to
an integrated electronics manufacturing
service (EMS) solutions provider for original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and
original design manufacturers (ODMs) in
Asia.
The company has 100 state of the
art SMT lines with lead-free/RoHS
compliance for PCB assembly and box build
products spread over eight campuses and
five manufacturing plants located in five
Assembly line at CEI Contract Manufactuing Limited.
countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia,
China and Thailand. It specialises in multi-
mix, multi-volume production with clean
room and flex-circuit assembly and can
handle the smallest chip size of 01005 and
the largest PCB board of 610 x 534 mm.
Beyonics acquired Seagate’s Senai
PCBA operation in Malaysia in Dec.
2007, and its successful integration into
Beyonics family resulted in revenue jump
to a record level of SG $1.41 billion for
FY 2008 ending 31 July 2008. Some of
Beyonics’ noteable EMS customers in
the IT/computers, telecommunications
and consumer electronics sectors are
Seagate, Quantum, Dell, Hauppauge, IKor,
Panasonic, Motorola, Sony and Hitachi.
In the automotive sector, the company
serves Sensata and Seabato. In the medical
& healthcare segments, the company’s
key customers are Baxter Healthcare and
Animas Corp.
While talking about future road
Manufacturing Integration Technology Ltd /AMS Biomedical
map for the company, CP Goh, CEO of
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