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Malacca-born merchant, Chia Ann Siang joined Boustead & Co in 1848. During his time with Boustead & Co, he became a partner of the firm Geok Teat and Company. After working for 42 years, Chia decided to retire and went into the timber business. He was a wealthy landowner and a leading
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The company's shipping division was the largest in
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Boustead & Co had a successful investment business in commodities, ships and properties, bringing new companies to the London Stock
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Singapore company. Schwabe and his cousin established Sykes Schwabe & Co in Liverpool. The Liverpool partner would export products like textiles, biscuits, brandies and steel to the East, while the Singapore partner would trade with Eastern produce such as coffee and spices.
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Boustead Salcon Water
Solutions designs, engineers and constructs water and wastewater treatment plants for industrial applications. In the energy sector, the business division is an ion exchange specialist. Its industrial water and wastewater treatment plants (e.g.
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Maxitherm designs, engineers and constructs mini-power plants and solid waste energy recovery plants. The solid waste energy recovery plants are essentially mini-power plants have been developed with up to 20MW in capacity, which convert
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In 1892, Boustead handled the first shipment of bulk oil to Penang. Shortly after, the Shell Trading and Transport Company was formed. Isaac Henderson, a Boustead partner was one of the founding directors of the new company, now known simply as
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The group's engineering divisions specialise in energy-related engineering, water & wastewater engineering and industrial real estate solutions. Boustead also has a geo-spatial technology arm which distributes
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and once through steam generators to the downstream oil & gas industries. Process heater systems are critical to the distillation and separation of crude oil and natural gas into the many
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and Malaysia. Each company carried the same name and was listed on their respective stock exchanges. Boustead Singapore Limited was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on 17 October 1975.
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Boustead Controls & Electrics designs, engineers and supplies process control systems and emergency/safety shutdown systems on oil & gas well platforms,
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