SEED Co Ltd
SEED Co Ltd has become a focal point in Japan’s eye care industry over the past 60 years, and is now looking to capitalise on this regional reputation to apply the same innovation further afieldWriter: Matthew StaffProject Manager: Callam WallerSEED Co Ltd has been supplying contact lenses and eye care products addressed for the Japanese market for 60 years, and as the Company celebrates this impressive anniversary, it can now turn its attentions to the same concerted influence on a more international scale.SEED’s 1dayPure moisture and 2weekPure moisture products have become a staple in its domestic Japan, tailored to the country’s unique but broad range of needs, and now the focus is broadening, the Company can capitalise on the promise being shown in the rest of Asia and in Europe; once again providing for the needs of each society.“Since 2010, we have been concentrating on the extensive development of sales channels with a view to launch sales in overseas markets,” the Company emphasises. “We are supplying our products to more than 19 countries and regions at the moment. Not only do we export our products, we have also established overseas subsidiaries in Shanghai, Taipei Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam in Asia, along with European subsidiaries in Germany and Belgium.President and Chief Executive Officer, Masahiro Urakabe adds: “In the Japanese market we already have these established products, and we are of course in the process of unveiling new ones too; to continue to deal with forms of refractive error correction requirements.…
The Hearing Solution Group
The Hearing Solution Group is providing complete hearing and communication healthcare in Singapore, utilising the latest testing procedures available to restore and enhance hearing, speech perception and communicationWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Callam WallerThe Hearing Solution Group is the region’s biggest and most professional Hearing Healthcare provider, headquartered in Singapore with subsidiaries in Indonesia and Malaysia.Currently The Hearing Solution Group is operating 40 centres in Indonesia, nine in Malaysia and seven in Singapore; with the world getting noisier, people misusing portable music devices and the population steadily growing older but remaining physically active, the need for professional hearing healthcare is steadily growing. Along with the need, The Hearing Solution Group continues to grow in all three countries bringing better hearing healthcare to more convenient locations closer than ever to our customers.Manfred Stoifl, Managing Director and Owner of The Hearing Solution Group explains, “Our vision is to Provide complete hearing and communication healthcare, using the latest testing procedures, equipment & therapy to develop, restore or enhance hearing, central auditory perception and speech.“Complete Hearing Healthcare means providing all services and equipment necessary to provide a one stop solution for all hearing and communication related needs for our customers.”To establish the degree of hearing loss, a series of tests are conducted to objectively asses a customer’s hearing and central & central auditory processing ability.Developments in hearing healthcareHearing testing has changed a lot in the recent past and is still changing with new testing procedures that are becoming available regularly.“To assess someone’s hearing problem, The Hearing Solution Group are not just…
Luci Pte Ltd
Luci Pte Ltd is building an exciting portfolio of work in new markets, driving forward with excellence in all aspects of the lighting manufacture industryWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Tom CullumLuci Pte Ltd has excelled over the years in its ability to develop products to be used as both technical and specifically functional products, becoming particularly prevalent in its ability to keep up-to-date with significant industry trends, while also keeping abreast of the needs of its customers.The Company has tapped into many markets, excelling in architectural and interior lighting; however, it is also successfully moving into the challenge of functional lighting. Luci has a well established and unique background that is firmly cemented in Japan’s lighting industry, and looks set to be there for many years to come.“As we have a high level of experience in space designing, we had our eye on advancements in technology for LED, which generally entails smallness, simplicity and ease of dimming ability,” explains Junko Kageyama, Sales Manager at Luci. “As a trusted member of Japan’s lighting industry, we believed we would have the ability to do something different to the newcomers in the market.“Our early days started with the Company providing a purely stock and selling business for RGB decorative lighting and signage lighting. After that, we have progressed and developed the original products we provided to adapt into the architectural and interior lighting industry.”The main products on offer from the Company are constantly evolving, a prime example being the fact that Luci has removed its RGB and signage products from…
SEED Co Ltd
SEED Co Ltd has become a focal point in Japan’s eye care industry over the past 60 years, and is now looking to capitalise on this regional reputation to apply the same innovation further afieldWriter: Matthew StaffProject Manager: Callam WallerSEED Co Ltd has been supplying contact lenses and eye care products addressed for the Japanese market for 60 years, and as the Company celebrates this impressive anniversary, it can now turn its attentions to the same concerted influence on a more international scale.SEED’s 1dayPure moisture and 2weekPure moisture products have become a staple in its domestic Japan, tailored to the country’s unique but broad range of needs, and now the focus is broadening, the Company can capitalise on the promise being shown in the rest of Asia and in Europe; once again providing for the needs of each society.“Since 2010, we have been concentrating on the extensive development of sales channels with a view to launch sales in overseas markets,” the Company emphasises. “We are supplying our products to more than 19 countries and regions at the moment. Not only do we export our products, we have also established overseas subsidiaries in Shanghai, Taipei Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam in Asia, along with European subsidiaries in Germany and Belgium.President and Chief Executive Officer, Masahiro Urakabe adds: “In the Japanese market we already have these established products, and we are of course in the process of unveiling new ones too; to continue to deal with forms of refractive error correction requirements.…
Illuminate Lighting Design
Illuminate Lighting Design has perfected its ability to manipulate and alter spatial elements in order to create exceptional layers of lightingWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Tom CullumOver the years, Illuminate Lighting Design has been extremely fortunate to share projects with innovative developers, architects and designers who are renowned in the industry for pushing boundaries; working with such visionaries in the industry has always pushed Illuminate to evolve as project demands increase.Through constantly educating itself and staying relevant in the industry via the crosspollination of ideas that emerge from work with manufacturers, trade shows, clients and designers, the Company is retaining its place at the top of the industry.“Explaining the design process for lighting is particularly difficult to clarify to clients,” explains Simon Berry, Partner at Illuminate Lighting Design. “During our concept phase, we have to use the latest up-to-date techniques to portray our idea and intent - it is critical and the first time the client will see something visually engaging towards the project.”The Company has grown through incredible technological advancements in the industry, at the time Berry started Illuminate, the creative process involved tracing and expressing the lighting using a yellow highlighting pen; now various software is used with the ability represent the lighting throughout the different times of the day.“These advancements haven’t altered our philosophies in any way and I have always believed that first we have to listen before we can understand the needs,” explains Berry. “We remain respectful of the original design at all times and work in a collaborative team structure.“I began…
Luci Pte Ltd
Luci Pte Ltd is building an exciting portfolio of work in new markets, driving forward with excellence in all aspects of the lighting manufacture industryWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Tom CullumLuci Pte Ltd has excelled over the years in its ability to develop products to be used as both technical and specifically functional products, becoming particularly prevalent in its ability to keep up-to-date with significant industry trends, while also keeping abreast of the needs of its customers.The Company has tapped into many markets, excelling in architectural and interior lighting; however, it is also successfully moving into the challenge of functional lighting. Luci has a well established and unique background that is firmly cemented in Japan’s lighting industry, and looks set to be there for many years to come.“As we have a high level of experience in space designing, we had our eye on advancements in technology for LED, which generally entails smallness, simplicity and ease of dimming ability,” explains Junko Kageyama, Sales Manager at Luci. “As a trusted member of Japan’s lighting industry, we believed we would have the ability to do something different to the newcomers in the market.“Our early days started with the Company providing a purely stock and selling business for RGB decorative lighting and signage lighting. After that, we have progressed and developed the original products we provided to adapt into the architectural and interior lighting industry.”The main products on offer from the Company are constantly evolving, a prime example being the fact that Luci has removed its RGB and signage products from…
KBSA Kimbe
Boasting numerous iconic projects spread throughout the Company’s history, KBSA Kimbe has emerged on top as a family run specialist covering the full spectrum of PNG’s logistics, retail, building supplies and agribusiness industryWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Tom CullumKimbe Bay Shipping Agencies Ltd (KBSA) has set itself apart from the rest in the industry by providing services to the people through a flexible approach to problem solving. Never more so have they provided such a vital service as when founder Ivan O’Hanlon, sailed on many voyages on one of the companies vessels in which he stopped in some of the most remote places on earth which were predominately lacking in the most basic of services.The KBSA vessels would be filled with upto 200 tonnes of rice, noodles, sugar, flour and go about the villages trading goods, subsequently returning to Kimbe full of copra and cocoa from remote communities buying their produce and leaving behind very thankful villagers.“The Company was originally set up by our father Ivan O’Hanlon in the late 60’s, which happened to be around the time that Kimbe Town - capital of the West New Britain Province - was developing as an agricultural centre for palm oil,” explains Len O’Hanlon, Business Development Manager at KBSA Kimbe.Kimbe town began to develop at a rapid rate - with palm oil growth skyrocketing - KBSA’s founder quickly realised the potential as a support service to supply the agriculture boom, and also the large population that it was attracting.“We began in the Port of Kimbe, focusing our energies on…
Illuminate Lighting Design
Illuminate Lighting Design has perfected its ability to manipulate and alter spatial elements in order to create exceptional layers of lightingWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager: Tom CullumOver the years, Illuminate Lighting Design has been extremely fortunate to share projects with innovative developers, architects and designers who are renowned in the industry for pushing boundaries; working with such visionaries in the industry has always pushed Illuminate to evolve as project demands increase.Through constantly educating itself and staying relevant in the industry via the crosspollination of ideas that emerge from work with manufacturers, trade shows, clients and designers, the Company is retaining its place at the top of the industry.“Explaining the design process for lighting is particularly difficult to clarify to clients,” explains Simon Berry, Partner at Illuminate Lighting Design. “During our concept phase, we have to use the latest up-to-date techniques to portray our idea and intent - it is critical and the first time the client will see something visually engaging towards the project.”The Company has grown through incredible technological advancements in the industry, at the time Berry started Illuminate, the creative process involved tracing and expressing the lighting using a yellow highlighting pen; now various software is used with the ability represent the lighting throughout the different times of the day.“These advancements haven’t altered our philosophies in any way and I have always believed that first we have to listen before we can understand the needs,” explains Berry. “We remain respectful of the original design at all times and work in a collaborative team structure.“I began…
ASB Biodiesel
ASB Biodiesel is well established in the industry without requiring modification Company when it comes to the successful and sustainable creation of biodiesel; working towards air quality objectives and a cleaner futureWriter: Phoebe Calver Project Manager: Matthew Cole-WilkinWith its operating base located in Hong Kong, ASB Biodiesel’s factory has the capacity to produce 100,000 tonnes of low-carbon transport fuel a year, a huge amount that is enough to fuel every diesel engine running on the City’s roads.The Company has worked tirelessly with the aim of offsetting some of the greenhouse gas emissions produced by Hong’s transport sector; and presently the Company has managed to offset 257,000 tonnes which equates to 3.6 percent of the total amount.ASB Biodiesel has differentiated itself from other biodiesel production plants in the industry, with its facilities able to process multiple feedstocks, some of which include cooking oil and grease-trap oil.“Our fuel meets the EN 14214 standard of the European Committee for Standardisation,” explains the Company on its website. “We are incredibly proud of ASB Biodiesel and the product we produce, making a clean, low-carbon transport fuel that can be used as a substitute for fossil diesel, or alternatively blended with fossil diesel without requiring modification of diesel engines.”Around 90 percent of the global biodiesel produced is based on edible oils gained from crops such as rapeseed, soy and palm, however, at times this can be slightly controversial as it can compete with food production and subsequently may then contribute to rising food prices.“This is where we are excelling in the industry and…
Gunkul Engineering Public Company Ltd
Gunkul Engineering is focused on becoming the leading producer of electricity from renewable energy, including work as both the manufacturer and provider of equipment for power systemsWriter: Phoebe CalverProject Manager:Matthew Cole-WilkinThe global economy proved to be particularly difficult place for businesses throughout 2016, providing a year of uncertainty to many companies in the industry; Gunkul Engineering Public Company Limited became an exception to this rule, continuing to successfully generate the required operating results.Currently, there is well-founded expectation that Thailand’s economy will have a much improved growth trajectory in the latter part of 2017, supported by the stability of the country’s political situation.Of course, these predictions for stability can only mean good things for Gunkul, enabling the Company to continue successfully driving forward within the industry - setting the standard for the industry. It is predicted that ASEAN economies will also expand more than previous years, in order to focus on expansion and maximise the potential that can come from it, Gunkul is adjusting its business strategy by focusing on investment and increased production in overseas countries.“We have successfully generated revenue - even throughout the difficult economic situation for both the Company and our subsidiaries,” explains Sopacha Dhumrongpiyawut, Chief Executive Officer at Gunkul Engineering. “This revenue came from the distribution of electricity in our commercial project Solar Rang Ngern, which actually began at the beginning of 2016, alongside the distribution of electric commercial wind power plants.”Adjusting to new agreements Presently the revenues from construction services have decreased, due simply to the distribution of supply equipment for electrical systems to…
