Singapore's industrial economy is one of the most consequential and least understood in the world. It makes a meaningful share of the world's semiconductor chips, fuels the global shipping fleet, builds the platforms that pump deep-water oil and manufactures medicines for most of the world's largest drugmakers — and nearly all of it happens behind fences, in Tuas and on Jurong Island, out of public view.
The Singapore Industry Index is a record of that economy, company by company. Each entry sets down what a company actually does — the capabilities, the facilities, the facts that place it — in plain English, checked against public sources. Where the record runs deepest, the companies appear on film: shot on their own floors, at their own machines, with clients named on camera.
Every fact must be true and traceable to a source.
Two rules govern everything published here. Every fact must be true and traceable to a source. And where something cannot be verified, it is left out rather than guessed. A record is only worth consulting if it can be trusted; this one is built to be.
Companies can claim their records, correct them, and add what the public sources missed — claiming is free, and always will be. The record improves the same way it began: one verified fact at a time.