Events

Seminar highlights how it is essential companies start looking at green practices to enhance their global competitiveness and bottom-line

Some 120 participants from 70 organisations attended the Green Manufacturing Seminar organised by International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, together with the Singapore High Technology Association (SHTA) and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech). The seminar aims to help Singapore electronics and precision engineering (EPE) companies understand the growing focus on green manufacturing, the global opportunities and how Singapore companies can go green.

In his opening address, Mr Yew Sung Pei, the Assistant Chief Executive Officer, IE Singapore touched on how many countries have introduced environmental regulations so that to be globally compliant, MNCs like HP, IBM and Panasonic are developing baseline standards for their suppliers and are increasingly demanding green compliance from them. The seminar he said will give a holistic view on the ‘What’, ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of green manufacturing.

Read more: Going Green in Manufacturing

Asia Pacific's Best Tech Companies Recognised

Singapore and Malaysian companies clinch prestigious titles at the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards

Frost & Sullivan hosted the annual Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards banquet in Singapore on 21 August. This is the the fourth consecutive year the awards recognises best practices in Industrial Process Control, Electronics & Security, Energy & Power Systems, Chemical, Materials and Food, Measurement & Instrumentation and Environment & Building Technologies industries.

Thirty-three titles were conferred to the deserving organisations at a gala-evening at Hotel Intercontinental, attended by 150 senior business executives from the industrial technologies industries. The best practices and outstanding industry performance by these recipients prove that economic climate is not a deterrent to operational success of top players. SHTA is one of the supporting organisations for the awards and Sunny Chin, SHTA President was there to award the Pacific Technology Innovator of the Year, Handheld Projection Technologies award to Digislide Holdings.

Mr Sunny Chin, SHTA President, presenting the Innovator of the Year, Handheld Projection Technologies award to Digislide Holdings’s Chief Technologist, Peter Rubinshtein.

“The event is a testimony to our belief in technologies innovation helps businesses to achieve break through and attain a greater success in global economy. We look forward to more local players to step up their effort to be the leaders in technologies innovation in their respective fileds”, commented Sunny.

Read more: Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Awards: The Winners are...

SHTA has signed an MOU to work with the Association of Aerospace Industries Singapore (AAIS) on 27 May at the Aerospace Supplier eXchange (ASX) 2009. The biennial regional conference and exhibition focussed on the support capabilities of Tier 3 and 4 that serve the aerospace OEMs and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) companies. The MOU laid out a framework for both associations to collaborate on a wide range of areas. Signing on behalf of their associations were Mr Sunny Chin, President of SHTA and Mr Charles Chong, President of AAIS.