Edgen Murray opens $19M Singapore distribution centre

Edgen Murray opened its new US$19.2 million distribution centre in Singapore early this month.

The 18,000-sq-mt facility in Tuas includes 12,800 sq m of covered-warehouse space, providing a storage capacity for 30,000 tonnes of products.

The new centre will build on Edgen Murray’s 18-year history in Singapore, where the company had centralised its Asia-Pacific operations. The regional hub has supported customers around Southeast Asia, China, South Korea, Japan and Australia, supplying high-performance steel products for both fossil-fuelled and renewable power generation applications.

“Our new facility represents the single largest capital investment made in the history of our company,” said Michael Craig, Edgen Murray’s executive vice president and managing director for the Eastern Hemisphere.

“The shortage of infrastructure to meet the current energy and power demands of Asia Pacific’s emerging markets is one of our major growth drivers, as well as next-generation sustainable energy generation strategies in mature economies,” he added.