P&G celebrates the 15th Anniversary of its Singapore Pioneer Plant

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) today marked the 15th anniversary of its Singapore Pioneer Plant in Tuas. Dignitaries from the U.S. Embassy, the High Commission of Pakistan, and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) attended the celebration event at the plant in Tuas. At the event, the company also announced a major milestone of providing 21 billion liters of clean water to communities in need around the world through its Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program.

Set up in 2008 P&G’s Singapore Pioneer Plant is one of four global P&G sites manufacturing perfumes. The perfumes are supplied to P&G’s manufacturing sites within the region for its Fabric, Home Care, and Beauty businesses.

The Pioneer Plant is also home to P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) manufacturing module. The CSDW Program was started in 2004 to provide clean water to children and families in need around the world. The program provides an easy-to-use water purification packet invented by P&G scientists that can clean 10 liters of contaminated water and make it drinkable in just 30 minutes. The CSDW sachets produced at this plant have been instrumental in P&G efforts to support disaster relief efforts and communities without access to clean drinking water on an ongoing basis such as recent floods in Pakistan and cholera outbreaks in multiple countries in Africa.

Having been in Singapore for 35 years, it is home to P&G’s regional headquarters for the AsiaPacific, Middle East, and Africa region, employing people from Singapore and the globe. It is alsothe location of the state-of-the-art Singapore Innovation Centre which serves as the hub of R&Din the region and is also the largest private R&D center in Singapore.