Singapore High Technology Association

Productive AGM and Networking Nite included talks by A*Star and Eco Leadership
Picture: Old & New. L to R: The current 'Guard': Paul Yeo (Secretary), Tan Cheng Yian (Council Member), Kenneth Neo (Treasurer), Sunny Chin (President) and three of the new Council Members:  Charles Ban (Dir, HG Asia Pte Ltd), Vijay Bareja (Dir, Nuvista Technologies Pte Ltd) and Ralph Hendrich (GM, Koelnmesse Pte Ltd)

SHTA's third AGM on 22 September 2009 started with some words of inspiration for the 28 members who attended the event amidst the beautiful surroundings of the HortPark. They touched on the 'bigger picture' about what the Association is trying to achieve.

Read more: Council Welcomes New Members

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...

The sky seems to be the limit as this precision engineering company positions itself, ready for Singapore’s next push into the aerospace industry

Advance Tech Automation seems destined to be the type of company that will succeed in the new millennium. In 2000, its youthful co-founder and managing director, Kenneth Neo, just turned 29, invested $100,000 to start a design company for automation equipment with just 5 staff. Today, it has grown and branched out into manufacturing and has a staff of 350 workers spread over its Singapore (Woodlands Spectrum 1 Industrial Park), China (Wuxi) and Malaysian (Gelang Patah, Johor) operations.

Picture: Interview with Mr Kenneth Neo, Managing Director of Advance Tech Automation Pte Ltd

In the last three financial years (2006 to 2008), the Advance Tech group of companies annual turnovers averaged $38.8 million.

Read more: Advance Tech: What’s Next?

Exploit Technologies, the marketing and commercialisation arm of A*Star, contributes news and articles for emerging technologies that are ready for the market. This follows a wide ranging discussion held in August between SHTA President, Mr Sunny Chin and Ms Woo Kwai Merng, Executive Vice-President of Exploit Technologies.

Picture: SHTA meets Exploit Technologies. From L to R:  Ms Esther Yeo, Manager, Science & Engr Commercialisation. Ms Woo Kwai Meng, Exec VP, Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Science & Engr Comericalisation. Ms Seeto Wei Peng, VP, Head, Corp Marcom and Mr Sunny Chin, President SHTA.

Read more: Ready to be Exploited