JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #80 - April 2013 - 3

Aerospace,
composites and Singapore

50th year
President and CEO/Publisher:
Frédérique Mutel
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Frédéric Reux
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Antoine Morel
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Kim -Oanh Truong
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Frédéric Reux

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Editor-in-chief
reux@jeccomposites.com

Singapore, or Asia’s “little Switzerland”, as it
is sometimes called, is a hub for excellence.
And there are plenty of excellence centres
in this natural-resource-poor country. The
only real strength it can count on is that of
the men and women who live there. The
generally favourable conditions for initiative
(a result of goal-directed policies) constitute
another factor that contributes to make the
country so dynamic. Singapore is indeed a
land of opportunity for entrepreneurs and
investors.
One business sector in particular is a perfect
example of this dynamic environment, and
that is aerospace. The government there has
focused all its attention on that sector, and
Singapore has gradually become a key technological platform for the global aerospace
sector. All the industry’s major companies
are installed in the region. In 2010, the sector employed more than 18,000 people and
was already worth more than S$7.2 billion.
Aerospace business is heavily based (90%)
on maintenance and repair operations
(MRO), and on high value manufacturing
(10%). Two of the world’s largest companies in the MRO field, ST Aerospace and
SIA Engineering, are located in Singapore.
Two historical clusters, Changi North and
Loyang Aerospace, are dedicated to the sector, and now there is also Seletar Aerospace
Park, a recent initiative that has won over
companies like Rolls-Royce, EADS, Eurocopter, Fokker Services, Hawker Pacific and
Bell… a long list that adds to those already
established, like Goodrich, Nordam, Safran,
Pratt & Whitney and Boeing. The estimated
growth over the next ten years is 4-5%.
Of course, the considerable development

of the use of composite materials in aircraft
construction raises questions about the evolution of MRO activities. Early on, action
was taken to address the challenges facing
the MRO field, and a first initiative emerged
in 2007, the A*STAR Aerospace Programme (AP). The programme is not dedicated entirely to composites, but they are
included. By last July, with Hexcel coming
on board, A*STAR AP’s membership stood
at 18 companies, including other leading
players in the aerospace industry such as
Boeing, EADS, General Electric, Pratt &
Whitney and Rolls Royce.
This announcement was preceded by
another one that was just as significant: on
10 April 2012, ST Kinetics and Singapore’s
Republic Polytechnic (RP) launched the
Advanced Composite Engineering Lab
(ACEL), a S$3m investment. The laboratory specializes in composite material science
research and production, and is possibly the
first in Southeast Asia to specialize in natural
fibre studies. The initiative is a good sign
that while interest in composite materials is
not new in Singapore, it has been increasing.
All the schools and universities are already
involved in composite materials and have
programmes on the subject, including major
institutions like the National University of
Singapore, Republic Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic,
Nanyang Technological University, and
Singapore Institute of Technology.

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Technical editor: Franck Glowacz
Tel: +33 (0)1 58 36 15 04
glowacz@jeccomposites.com

To learn more about how composite materials are positioned and about their role in
aerospace activities in Singapore, meet us at
the 6th JEC Asia on the 25th through the
27th of June 2013!

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