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Small Singapore businesses make big US expansion plans

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Elysia Tan

Published Wed, Aug 10, 2022 · 05:00 PM

Flexxon's chief operating officer May Chng (left) and chief executive officer Camellia Chan hope to commence on-ground operations in the US in the next 6 to 12 months. PHOTO: FLEXXON
Chief executive officer Tulika Raj (left) and chief technology officer Saeid Masudy Panah make up SunGreenH2's founding team. The company plans to open a US office in end-2022 or early-2023, where it will set up and facilitate more strategic partnerships and evaluate the possibility of establishing a mass manufacturing facility in the country. PHOTO: SUNGREENH2
SunGreenH2’s prototype electrolyser cell, demonstrating the electrochemical process of splitting water into its basic elements hydrogen and oxygen at A*Star's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. PHOTO: SUNGREENH2
Flexxon CEO Camellia Chan (centre) and chief operating officer May Chng (right) with Barry Broome, president and CEO of economic development group Greater Sacramento Economic Council. PHOTO: FLEXXON

WHILE some may take the gloomy economic climate as an invitation to hold back, local companies SunGreenH2 and Flexxon believe that it is now all the more important for them to make their mark. The winners at the 2022 SelectUSA Investment Summit are setting their sights on expanding in the United States.

SunGreen H2

Hydrogen is mostly derived from fossil fuels and natural gases today, but there is the emerging lower-carbon alternative of green hydrogen, produced by electrolysis and powered by renewable energy. Cleantech startup SunGreenH2 uses a “unique set of materials and nanostructures” to make electrolyser components that increase efficiency and lower the cost of this electrochemical water splitting.

This technology is particularly relevant in the context of rising energy prices, chief executive officer and co-founder Tulika Raj said.

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