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BUSINESS WORLD SINGAPORE BOOK OF RECORDS


Company Largest Aerospace MRO Hub First Iron Mill


The National Iron and Steel Mill was opened in Aug 1963. Costing S$12 million and fi nanced by two local merchant houses with the EDB as a minority shareholder, it was the fi rst factory to be opened in Jurong Industrial Estate.


First Brick Maker


The fi rst recorded brick business in Singapore was started by Narayana Pillai. Arriving with Raffl es on his second voyage in Jun 1819, Pillai was also Singapore’s fi rst contractor. He founded the Sri Mariamman temple and was later appointed chief of the Indian community.


First IS0 9002 Company


Chartered Machine Tools certifi ed under the Good Manufacturing Practice Scheme attained the fi rst ISO 9002 in the year 1989.


Largest Recycler Of Plastic Waste


Eveready Manufacturing recycles consumer plastics such as discarded packaging from households. Set up by Wee Sang Kiang in 1978, the company melts scrap plastic to pro- duce tiny pellets that are sold to manufactur- ers for making plastic items.


Singapore is the largest aerospace mainte- nance, repair and overhaul (MRO) hub in Asia, accounting for 25 percent of its market and employing 17,000 workers.


Largest Recycler Of Electronic Waste


Enviro-Hub Holdings is the largest in the man- agement and recycling of electronic waste. It has a copper smelting plant which can produce 10,000 tons of copper cathodes per year. It is also in the recovery and refi ning of platinum group metals, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, plastics and chemicals.


First Commercial Manufacturer Of Composite Materials


Nelco Products opened its plant at Pioneer Road in Feb 2008. The 32,000-sq-ft plant will serve the needs of the growing aviation industry. It produces advanced electronic materials used to fabricate multilayer PCBs and interconnection systems.


First Gas Company


The Singapore Gas Company was established in 1861, using coal as feedstock for gasworks in Kallang. It became part of the Public Utilities Board in 1963 and was corpo- ratised in 1995 as PowerGas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Power Ltd.


Largest Aircraft MRO


ST Aerospace is the world’s largest inde- pendent aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul company. It services a wide range of commercial and military aircraft for a global customer base.


First SOI Wafer Fab Biggest Chip Maker


Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is one of the world’s largest semiconductor foundries. It operates fi ve fabrication plants and employs 6000 people in Singapore. In 2009, it was acquired by GlobalFoundries and became GlobalFoundries Singapore.


First Wafer Fab


Singapore’s fi rst wafer fab was started by STMicroelectronics in 1984. A wafer fab makes advanced electronic components by creating integrated circuits on the surface of wafers.


Soitec’s 300-mm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer fabrication plant at the Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park is the company’s fi rst manufacturing facility outside of France and the fi rst of its kind in Singapore to use SOI technology. Wafer production started in 2008, with a fi nal capac- ity of one million 300-mm wafers per year. SOI technology allows chips to function 30-40 percent faster than conventional chips, while consuming only half as much power.


Largest Precision Manufacturing Plant


California-based FormFactor’s 300,000 sq ft manufacturing plant at Tampines is the largest of its kind in the world. The plant, which produces wafer probe cards – an essential piece of hardware used in wafer testing by semiconductor makers – is the largest preci- sion engineering investment to date.


First OLED Manufacturer


Innoled, a subsidiary of Eastgate Technology, is the fi rst Or- ganic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) manufacturer in Singapore using


Largest Builder Of Jackup Drilling Rigs


Keppel Off shore & Marine, an integration of Keppel FELS, Kep- pel Shipyard, Keppel Singmarine and Keppel yards overseas, was established in 2002. It is the world’s leading designer and builder of jackups, having built the most jackups on order in the last decade.


First Oil Rig


Keppel FELS was the fi rst Singaporean company to design and build an oil rig in the region, the JW McLean, in 1969.


conjugated polymer technology. It is the fi rst to do inkjet printing of the Light Emitting Polymer (LEP)


and thin fi lm encapsulation for commercial production. Instead of using glass encapsula- tion, its OLED uses thin fi lm encapsulation which enables display thickness to be as thin as 0.7 mm.


Largest Tanker


Jahre Viking, the largest tanker in the world, was successfully reconstructed and reactivated by Keppel Shipyard in 1991. It measures 485.46m from one end to the other.


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