Medical devices

LAC Med set to list on Bursa with an AI healthcare play across Malaysia and Indonesia

Group’s proposed listing will serve as a springboard to accelerate regional expansion, with Indonesia as the sole overseas focus for now

Among the few listings on SGX that have done well this year are Centurion Accommodation Reit, Lum Chang Creations, and MetaOptics.
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UltraGreen.ai right to move fast on Singapore listing instead of waiting for SGX-Nasdaq bridge

To drive its post-listing performance, the company should educate investors, lay out operational milestones and emphasise its competitive advantage

UltraGreen.ai shares are expected to list on the Singapore Exchange on Dec 3.

Surgical tech firm UltraGreen.ai files for US$377.1 million IPO on SGX mainboard

It is offering 112.1 million shares at US$1.45 or S$1.892 apiece; this includes 5.9 million shares for a retail tranche in Singapore

The advancements made by the joint research will enable Singapore companies to better serve clients in the aerospace and semiconductor sectors, among others.

Stronger, tougher, cleaner: A*Star and local companies find new solutions in advanced manufacturing

Three new joint labs will develop new capabilities for high-value sectors such as aerospace and semiconductors

“If the Asean market is where I’m going to see the largest growth, then I should be looking at potentially Asean as a place to be,” says UltraGreen co-CEO Ravinder Sajwan.

Surgical platform UltraGreen targets Asia for growth

Singapore is not being ruled out as a potential listing location as the company seeks to tap its largest market

China’s retaliatory tariff against US imports is already taking a toll on hospitals and drugmakers.

China asks drugmakers, hospitals to find US import substitutes

The tit-for-tat escalation has seen both sides ratchet up tariffs on each other’s goods to over 100 per cent, threatening to wipe out commerce between the world’s two largest economies

From left: Beh Kian Teik, A*Star chief executive; Dr Tan See Leng, minister for manpower and second minister for trade and industry; Soh Leng Wan, assistant managing director (manufacturing) at Enterprise Singapore; Choo Heng Tong, executive vice-president at Economic Development Board; and Wong Anwei, executive director at Singapore Precision Engineering and Technology Association.

A*Star launches S$38 million MedTech Catapult to drive medical device commercialisation

Agency unveils a local supplier and contract manufacturer directory that details local manufacturers’ capabilities, allows medtech companies to find partners

The Huawei watch has an array of health functions, including monitors to measure the wearer’s blood pressure, sleep quality, heart rate and number of steps.

Huawei boosts smartwatch sales by registering them as medical devices

Due to its classification as a medical device, the watch is being sold in pharmacies across China

One of Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine's proton beam therapy machines. The ramp up in proton beam therapy has been slower than expected.

Auditor-flagged Singapore Institute of Advanced Medicine sets up strategic review panel

The panel will look into improving its performance amid a slower ramp-up in proton beam therapy as a form of cancer treatment