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Includes original Japanese scenarios. Japanese language -- Spoken Japanese. So it gives you no pressure about the overheads. Another key investment for the firm was a plasma cutting machine which allowed it to penetrate into the marine industry, selling materials required by shipyards, and a cut-to-length line which allowed YSM to buy aluminium coils rather than standard sized sheets.
This greatly increased YSM's product listing and also provided savings and reduced scrap materials. At the time a Holland yard came to Singapore to invest and they asked us to supply them with materials. By taking this journey with them, we learned that there is a lot of usage for aluminium. It is also worth noting that Mr Quah's pivots came early in the game, as he knew the importance of moving out of distribution. Examples of this is the honeycomb core, aluminium tape and ceiling panels.
YSM acquired its first factory space at Tuas Ave 1 in In , it acquired a larger factory space at Tuas Ave 4. This represented the next phase of growth, says Mr Quah. Today the firm is the only company in Singapore equipped with a coil-to-coil, colour coating line capable of handling a wide spectrum of Kynar Fluorocarbon PVDF paint system finishes. The windcatcher structure on top of CapitaGreen, for instance, which was designed to look like flower petals and captures cool fresh air and channels it into the office floors, was manufactured and coated by YSM according to the architect's requirements.
You can compare prices or you can compare material," says Mr Quah. Cheaper alternatives may use a higher ratio of primer as the cost of the primer is cheaper. The firm differentiates itself by moving up the value chain and positioning itself as a solutions provider.
By focusing on quality and tailoring its products to customer's needs, it keeps ahead of the game. Our prices are competitive and we can get better returns because we house everything here. He adds: "Enterprise Singapore believed in our vision and growth model and strongly supported our business plans to expand our operations and factory space. I didn't know what kind of conditions they would come up with.
By the time they agreed to help I might have finished the entire project already! But when I met them, I saw they were willing to work with us and support us. That more or less changed my mindset. Enterprise Singapore also supported YSM's implementation of a heavy tonnage automated storage and retrieval system. According to Mr Quah, it could previously take up to a day for YSM to retrieve an item if it was inconveniently located. Now, retrieval takes up to three minutes. Above: Enterprise Singapore supported Yan San Metals' implementation of a heavy tonnage automated storage and retrieval system.
Despite his many years of experience, Mr Quah still keeps up to date with the latest market trends by personally sourcing new manufacturing technologies and attending different trade shows overseas. Like, you discover you can get a machine to transform aluminium scraps into bigger pieces that you can sell for a higher price. Indeed, it was thanks to Mr Quah's walking the ground that the firm today is one of the leading manufacturers of aluminium honeycomb core composite panel systems.
These are essentially aluminium sheets that sandwich an aluminium honeycomb structure and can be utilised in walls, floors, roofs, doors and a wide variety of partitions because of the inherent strength derived from the honeycomb structure.
Today, YSM is the only company in the South-east Asian region to have a complete aluminium honeycomb composite processing line. At the time, when I visited the mill, there was a company in the south of France that had gone into insolvency so they asked me whether I was keen to go take a look at what they were doing and maybe buy their second-hand machines," says Mr Quah.
What surprised me is that they actually use very primitive equipment and my machine is more advanced than theirs. Mr Quah started a printing business with a couple of friends in the early '80s. His uncle bankrolled the business in the beginning and he subsequently bought over the controlling stake in the business from his uncle in It has four subsidiaries of its own in Malaysia, Thailand and China. Upon returning from his trip, Mr Quah turned his attention to modifying the existing machines used in the printing business and started producing his own honeycomb cells.
Asked if he is trained in engineering, Mr Quah laughs. It's more of the will to get things done The energy efficiency solutions provider has a three-year strategy that helps its strong staff to focus on four growth pillars. With help from Enterprise Singapore, the company is also seeking regional opportunities, riding on the wave of growing industry interest.
Inspiring Stories. First published on The Business Times on 04 December The proposed solution? A machine that is able to convert waste to energy. What makes this new system unique is there is no burning of waste at all. This is but one of the ways in which the company is actively innovating. Indoor farming solutions Another product that the company is excited about is its indoor farming solutions. Asked why he decided to go down this route, Mr Quah jokes: "We had the space!
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