Concrete Merchandise and Combination Co., Ltd. (CPAC), a subsidiary of main Southeast Asian constructing supplies agency Siam Cement Group (SCG), and Samsung subsidiary Samsung E&A, an engineering companies supplier, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on commercializing Samsung E&A’s proprietary cementitious materials utilized in additive development (AC). In early 2022, SCG signed an settlement with Danish AC OEM COBOD, maker of the BOD2 concrete printer, to distribute COBOD printers and promote the corporate’s expertise in Southeast Asia.
“World’s first” 3D printed medical middle. Picture courtesy of COBOD
That settlement led, in early 2023, to SCG’s completion of the “world’s first” 3D printed medical middle, a two-story construction about an hour and a half northeast of Bangkok. For its half, Samsung E&A (previously Samsung Engineering), first publicly demonstrated the corporate’s AC proficiencies in 2021.
Picture courtesy of Samsung E&A
To start out, the Thai (CPAC) and South Korean (Samsung E&A) firms plan to deploy 350 tons of Samsung’s cementitious materials in a construct in Saudi Arabia. CPAC will seek the advice of and supply different skilled companies on the undertaking, probably together with the sale or lease of COBOD gear.
That will make sense not solely due to SCG’s relationship with COBOD, but additionally as a result of COBOD’s printers have already been examined on the bottom in Saudi Arabia. Across the similar time as SGC was finishing the Thai medical middle, the BOD2 was getting used to assemble the “world’s largest” on-site, 3D printed construct, a villa in Riyadh.
Whereas the businesses didn’t announce particulars regarding the use for the deliberate construction in Saudi Arabia, Samsung E&A’s in depth historical past in constructing services for heavy industrial use — and particularly, in tasks associated to the power sector — means that the construct could also be for infrastructure moderately than for residential or business use. Alongside these traces, it’s price mentioning that in April 2024, Samsung E&A received a $6 billion fuel plant contract from Aramco.
A development appears to be creating involving cooperation between Southeast Asia and the Gulf Area in the direction of the target of digitization. As an illustration, earlier this yr, Pelagus 3D, a Singapore firm targeted on creating additive manufacturing (AM) options for the maritime sector, introduced a partnership with Saudi/UAE AM service bureau Immensa.
Additionally it is noteworthy to see subsidiaries of main conglomerates from two Southeast Asian nations collaborating on this sort of undertaking. Over the past half-century, the emergence and evolution of that kind of dynamic surrounding manufacturing for the semiconductor sector was largely accountable for propelling Southeast Asia to the highest of that market, globally.
Going ahead, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if nations in Southeast Asia broaden the circle of cooperation to incorporate the Gulf Area, in addition to nations in South and Central Asia, within the newest part of worldwide joint motion on industrial improvement.
Featured picture courtesy of CPAC and Samsung E&A
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