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We launched our first business operations in Singa-
pore in . Since then, we’ve been supplying what is
now the world’s largest city-state with urban infra-
structure solutions and helping make the Lion City the
modern economic powerhouse that it is today. We
now have more than , employees in the island
nation. With more than five million people on only 
square kilometers, Singapore is very densely populat-
ed. The country is also very affluent. These two factors
have made Singapore a prime market for urban infra-
structure providers.
We’re responsible for a wide array of the country ’s key
infrastructure projects. In the energy field, for exam-
ple, we’ve built one-third of Singapore’s power plants.
In the healthcare area, we’re supplying diagnostic im-
aging technologies – such as computed tomography,
magnetic resonance, angiography and fluoroscopy
systems – to both private and public healthcare facili-
ties. We’re also supporting Singapore in its visionary
aim to become the biomedical research hub for the
entire Asia-Pacific region.
Since , our trains have been providing safe and
reliable transport for the thousands of commuters who
travel the North South and East West Lines of Singa-
pore’s MRT metro system every day. We’ve supplied a
gate management system and baggage handling equip-
ment
to support daily operations at Singapore’s inter-
nationally acclaimed Changi Airport. Our automation
systems are being utilized in the city ’s state-of-the-art
Deep Tunnel Sewerage System, while our industry so-
lutions are ensuring that Singapore’s ports and other
critical public infrastructure operate reliably.
We’re delivering the electrification systems for MRT’s
Downtown Line, whose first phase is scheduled to be-
gin operation in . We’re also bidding to supply
train sets, rail automation equipment and power sup-
ply and com munications systems for two additional
lines scheduled to begin service by . In , we
commissioned and handed over a combined-cycle
power plant to PowerSeraya and supplied the Singa-
pore utility with another power plant in .
Water – and, in particular, water supply and treat-
ment – has been another main focus of our activities
in Singapore: we’ve built treatment facilities in the is-
land’s Kranji and Changi districts and opened a global
water research and development center in the city of
Singapore itself. We want to drama tically reduce en-
ergy consumption in desalination plants and thereby
create new opportunities for water supply in water-
starved regions worldwide.
In , we opened our City of the Future exhibition in
Singapore. In its first two years, the exhibition, which
presents our latest innovations in the area of sustain-
able urban development, has welcomed visitors from
all over the globe. Its success with an extremely di-
verse audience has inspired us to create another urban
sustainability center, the Crystal, which will open its
doors in London in .
Siemens in Singapore –
Partners in growth for
more than a century