Tooling, components and tolerances the rest of industry is built on.
THE INDEX
Twelve sectors. 103 capabilities. The map of who builds Singapore.
Start with a sector, narrow to the exact capability, arrive at the companies — and the films that prove they can do the work.
WHAT THIS MAP IS
Singapore's industrial economy is not one thing — it is twelve.
From the precision machinists holding tolerances of a few microns, to the yards that build and repair the world's ships, to the fabs and cleanrooms behind its semiconductors. And each of those sectors is really a stack of specific capabilities: a marine company does ship repair, offshore fabrication, marine engineering; a precision-engineering firm runs CNC machining, tool and die, surface treatment. Buyers don't search for "an industry" — they search for the capability they need, in Singapore, now.
The Singapore Industry Index maps the whole field: twelve sectors, and beneath them the seventy-odd capabilities the companies here actually sell. It is built the way a buyer thinks — sector, then service, then the companies that do it. And it is built the way a machine reads — every capability a clean, structured page, so when a procurement team or an AI asks who does this work in Singapore, a real answer is waiting.
This is the map. Pick a sector to see the companies shaping it; pick a capability to see exactly who does that.
Fabs, equipment makers and the supply chain around them.
The systems that build products at scale.
MRO, components and one of Asia’s densest aerospace clusters.
Shipowners, yards and operators run from the world’s busiest transhipment hub.
- Ship repair services
- Shipbuilding
- Marine engineering services
- Offshore fabrication services
- Marine electrical and automation services
- Propulsion and deck machinery services
- Port and materials-handling equipment services
- Subsea engineering
- Underwater services and ship husbandry
- FPSO and floating production
- Offshore rig building
- Bunkering and marine fuels
- Marine survey and classification
- Dredging and marine construction
- Offshore support vessels and salvage
- Ship chandlery and marine supplies
- Marine coatings and surface treatment
- Offshore wind and marine renewables
Refining, storage and speciality chemicals on Jurong Island and beyond.
- Plant maintenance and turnaround services
- Piping and mechanical works
- Storage tank and terminal services
- Instrumentation and control services
- Specialty chemicals and distribution
- Industrial gases
- Petroleum refining
- Petrochemicals and polymers
- Oleochemicals
- Lubricants and base oils
- Agrochemicals and crop protection
- Catalysts and adsorbents
- LNG and gas terminals
- Hydrogen and low-carbon fuels
- Coatings, resins and adhesives
- Flavours, fragrances and aroma chemicals
- Fine and electronic chemicals
- Power generation
- Energy and commodity trading
Solar, storage and the industrial energy transition.
Pharma, biologics and medical devices made for the world.
Ingredients, processing and food innovation.
The contractors and specialists building the city.
The warehouses, assets and operators that move everything else.
The physical backbone of the digital economy.
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