ASM Technology Singapore Clinched Singapore Quality Award 2019 For Business Excellence

Mr. Lee Wai Kwong, Chief Executive Officer of ASM Pacific Technology, accepting the Singapore Quality Award 2019 from Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry (left), Professor Cham Tao Soon, Chairman, Singapore Quality Award Governing Council (right), and Dr Ang Hak Seng, Chairman, Singapore Quality Award Management Committee (extreme left)

Singapore, 9 October 2019 – ASM Technology Singapore (ATS), the global headquarters of Hong Kong-listed ASM Pacific Technology Ltd (ASMPT), was awarded the prestigious Singapore Quality Award 2019 on 8 October 2019 The Singapore Quality Award is given to organisations that achieve high performance under the Business Excellence (BE) framework which assesses firms in terms of their leadership, customer engagement, strategy planning, people development, processes, knowledge systems, and results.

Accepting the Singapore Quality Award, Mr Lee Wai Kwong, Chief Executive Officer of ASMPT, said: ”The Singapore Quality Award is indeed an honour for us. Since 2016, ATS has embarked on a structured approach to the BE journey through benchmarking against world class quality and management systems. Through this, we have learned that everyone has a role to play in business excellence; we learned to collaborate to seek systematic and continuous improvements so as to deliver on our brand promise.”

Mr Lee further added: “Accolades like the Singapore Quality Class certification last year and now the Singapore Quality Award are great endorsements that we are on the right track. But excellence is not a destination, it is a journey to be smarter and better every day. In this data-centric era we at ASMPT, like our customers and partners globally, are transforming ourselves into Smart Digital Enterprises. ATS is part of the core team that is developing a portfolio of hardware, software and services to enable the new Digital Smart Manufacturing.”

The Singapore Quality Award 2019 presented to ASM Technology Singapore for Business Excellence

ASMPT Chief Executive Mr. Lee Wai Kwong representing ASM Technology Singapore, with the other Singapore Quality Award winners

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About ASM Technology Singapore and ASM Pacific Technology Limited
ASM Technology Singapore is a wholly owned subsidiary and the global business headquarters of ASM Pacific Technology, (HKEX stock code: 0522), a global technology and market leader that develops and provides leading edge solutions in surface mount technology, equipment and materials for the semiconductor assembly and packaging industries.

In 2018, Thomson Reuters listed ASMPT as one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Technology Leaders” and in September 2019, Forbes Asia named ASMPT in its inaugural “Asia’s Best Over A Billion” list which spotlights 200 top-performing listed companies across Asia Pacific with revenues of US$1 billion and over

Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 1989, ASMPT is currently one of the constituent stocks on the Hang Seng Composite MidCap Index under the Hang Seng Composite Size Indexes, the Hang Seng Composite Information Technology Industry Index under Hang Seng Composite Industry Indexes, and the Hang Seng Hong Kong 35 Index. To learn more about ASMPT, please visit its website at www.asmpacific.com.