ST Engineering flexes its muscles during pandemic

Singapore

IT took only two weeks for ST Engineering to set up a medical mask production facility in Singapore from scratch, with the first pieces rolling off the lines in mid-February even as the novel coronavirus was making its way across the world.

Andrew Chow, president of Singapore business at ST Engineering's electronics sector, said the company had no machines and no raw materials when it was given the brief to mass produce the hard-to-come-by masks for healthcare workers here.