Our Heritage Pushing Beyond the Limits

If we can think it, we can achieve it. Since our establishment in 1988, we have been pushing beyond our limits to see how far we can go and how much more we can offer our customers.

1988

Wah Loon was established as a sole proprietorship.

1990

Wah Loon Electrical Engineering Pte Ltd was incorporated.

1993

Wah Loon began to offer integrated mechanical and electrical engineering services as a main contractor. Wah Loon undertook M&E work for the first oil and gas refinery plant – Caltex Asia.

1995

Wah Loon achieved S$12 million in turnover with a staff strength of 30. Wah Loon moved to new and larger premises at 15 Kaki Bukit Crescent, Kaki Bukit Techpark 1.

1996

Established Wah Loon Engineering & Construction Sdn Bhd in Johor Bahru to penetrate the Malaysian construction market.

1998

Secured one of the largest landed development projects in Singapore, Villa Verde. In the same year, Wah Loon obtained the ISO9001:2000 certification.

2000

In anticipation of the strong demand for mechanical engineering services, Wah Loon expanded its scope of business to include the provision of mechanical engineering services.

2003

Established Wah Loon (M) Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu. Wah Loon moved up the construction value chain from a sub-contractor to a main contractor to provide greater value-added services.

2006

Wah Loon’s turnover crossed S$50 million with a staff strength of 122.

2007

Wah Loon also achieved the BCA L6 grading under the M&E work head and was certified to assume the role of main contractor in construction projects.

2008

Established Wah Loon Plant & Instrumentation to capture the growing demand for process plants in petrochemical, pharmaceutical, biologics and oil & gas sectors. The S$100 million turnover mark was crossed with a staff strength of 166.

2009

Wah Loon won 38th position in the Enterprise 50 Awards – in recognition of its business excellence and economic contribution to Singapore and abroad.

2010

Wah Loon won 10th position in the Enterprise 50 Awards and obtained the ISO9001:2008 certification. Wah Loon’s turnover exceeded S$150 million with a group staff strength of 277.

2011

In view of future corporate development and growth directions, Wah Loon Electrical Engineering Pte Ltd changed its corporate name to Wah Loon Engineering Pte Ltd to reflect its expanded scope and business expansion and moved to the current Wah Loon Building at 10 Tagore Drive.