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 Industry Index is a record of that economy, company by company. Each entry sets down what a company actually does — its capabilities, its facilities, the facts that place it in a sector — in plain English, checked against public sources.
Where the record runs deepest, companies appear on film: shot on their own floors, at their own machines, with clients named on camera. The Index is an industrial media and intelligence platform, and the film is not decoration. It is evidence a buyer can watch.
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 checked, it is left out rather than guessed. A record is only worth consulting if it can be trusted; this one is built to be.
The Index is written for the people who buy, invest, partner and hire in industry — and for the companies that want to be found by them. What a buyer in Rotterdam or Houston can learn about a Singapore manufacturer should not depend on who they happen to know.
Companies can claim their records, correct them, and add what the public sources missed. The record improves the same way it began: one checked fact at a time.