SMALL and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) planning to internationalise can get a helping hand from trade associations and chambers (TACs) such as the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and the Singapore Precision Engineering and Tooling Association (Speta). These TACs have introduced various initiatives to help local companies team up and tap opportunities abroad. Speta does this through ...

A NANYANG Technological University (NTU) start up has launched a water treatment plant in Vietnam that is remotely monitored from Singapore. De.Mem Pte Ltd s plant, the first of its kind in South east Asia, occupies 120 square metres a space just a little larger than a five room HDB flat near Ho Chi Minh City, but churns out a million litres of drinking water a day, roughly the amount ...

WITH the world becoming digitised, data centres (DCs) have assumed the role of vital cogs in the IT infrastructure. DCs are today one of the fastest growing investment areas in IT and this plays well into Singapore s strategy of becoming a DC hub for the region.However, not all is smooth sailing. Energy needs of DCs are huge and this is becoming a major concern not only from the profitability ...

WATER solutions company Hyflux posted a net profit of $8 million for its first quarter ended March 31, 2013, up 5 per cent from $7.7 million a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was $124.5 million, 8 per cent lower than the $135.3 million in the previous year. Municipal and industrial sectors contributed 93 per cent and 6 per cent to total revenue, compared with 91 per cent and 8 per cent a year ...

IT SOUNDS like science fiction, but the coat of paint on your house could one day power it entirely. In what they say is a world first, scientists from Singapore have devised new photovoltaic cells that are so ultra thin, solar panels could eventually be replaced with solar paint. The scientists achieved this by combining graphene the world s thinnest material and entirely made of carbon with ...

IF Boeing s struggles with its Dreamliner 787s grounded since January because of overheating batteries tell us anything, it is that proper thermal management of lithium ion batteries is both serious and seriously difficult business. Thermal management solutions for lithium ion batteries are also exactly what Gcorelab, a local clean tech startup, specialises in. Gcorelab is developing what it ...

BOUSTEAD Singapore s energy related engineering division has bagged contracts worth $60 million from oil and gas industries globally.The contracts, won since the start of its new financial year this month, raised the group s orderbook backlog to $415 million.The deals involve the design, engineering and construction of key process systems and waste heat recovery units for downstream oil ...

April 22 close $4.90 DBS Group Research, April 22 SEMBCORP s new energy from waste facility in its UK industrial site in Teesside will be its first energy from waste facility outside Singapore. It will be capable of producing up to 49 megawatts (MW) of gross power or 190 tonnes per hour of steam, using up to 450,000 tonnes of municipal and commercial waste per ...

THESE three essays received the most votes for April 1 s Thought Leadership Question (after a public voting period that ended at midnight, April 10) If you were in Government, what three environmental issues would you tackle in the next five years? Why? (Disclaimer All views expressed in these essays are solely those of their writers, and do not represent the opinions of this newspaper.) ...

TEHO International Inc is buying Seanly Technical Singapore (Seanly) for up to $2.5 million, the company said over the weekend. Seanly is a trader of reverse osmosis desalination products and other water related equipment used in ships and other marine vessels. The firm also holds a 49 per cent stake in STS Seanly Marine Sdn Bhd, a company incorporated in Malaysia which provides marine and ...

ASIA Pacific Breweries (APB) has been crowned the winner of a Sustainability Reporting award by ACCA Singapore, the Singapore office of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.Another award Best First Time Sustainability Report went to the National Environment Agency (NEA) at ACCA Singapore s Sustainability Reporting Awards 2013 held yesterday at Raffles Hotel.The awards recognise ...

NANYANG Technological University (NTU) scientists have developed a new material that can be an asset to the water industry. The material is formed by turning titanium dioxide crystals into patented nanofibres. These nanofibres can then be made into patented filter membranes. This new material can be used in an ultra filtration membrane that can be applied to the water purification process. As ...

[SINGAPORE] A tender has been called for the re greening of Jurong Island not to prettify it, but to use plants to sop up the contaminants in the soil and water fouled by the oil, petrochemical, chemical and power facilities there. The process, called phyto remediation, uses the natural processes of plants their metabolic and absorption capabilities as well as their built in transport systems ...

A CHEMICAL widely used in sunblock and cosmetics could improve Singapore s water industry. Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a new material, made from cheap and abundant titanium dioxide, that can be used to make better water filters. The filters can reduce the energy demand of treating waste water by more than half, and lead to cost savings of more than 30 per ...

WATER is, and has always been, a multi dimensional resource that crosses all other social and economic sectors. Its management, development and governance increasingly depends on policies in the other sectors. The case in Singapore has been no different. At independence in 1965, the city state was almost completely dependent on outside sources. Dilapidated buildings and squatter sheds in its ...