“He did not receive much education, so he’s a very hard worker who focuses on the production processes,” Glenndle Sim, the group’s executive chairman and CEO, says of his late father. “He sees, and then he improves.”
Fresh off a $3 million investment from Philip Yeo’s EDIS, Mencast group executive chairman and CEO Glenndle Sim says AI and additive manufacturing will take his marine engineering company to the next level.
When Mencast group founder Sim Gok Hian started his career in the offshore and marine sector, the job back then demanded craftsmanship and a tireless work ethic. Gok Hian cut his teeth first as a machinist and then as a foreman at Jurong Shipyard. From there, he took on jobs at various marine engineering firms that manufactured pistons and propellers and repaired ships. That lifelong passion for shipping turned into a career spanning over 40 years and led to the founding of the Mainboard-listed company.
