Today the company has grown into a true global enterprise, headquartered in Singapore, and with its fabrication facilities spanning 140,000 sq. m., producing over 25,000 metric tons of products from pressure vessels and process skids to wellhead platforms and subsea equipment for major partners like ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, BP and more. With nearly two decades in the business, Profab is still ready to take its business even further.

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PROFAB
390 Havelock Road, #06-02
King’s Center Singapore 169 662
+65 6774 7997
www.profab-group.com

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Profab
Invested in Growth
Profab’s Paul McFarlane discusses growth, facility expansions, and what
sets Profab apart in the world of oil and gas fabrication
Written by: Sasha Orman Produced by: Wayne Masciotro

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n 1998, Profab was launched on
Batam Island, Indonesia, just
a short hop by ferry from the
metropolis of Singapore, one of
the busiest logistics hubs in the
world – at the time, it was a small
factory designing and fabricating
pressure vessels for the oil and gas
industry. Today the company has
grown into a true global enterprise,
headquartered in Singapore,
and with its fabrication facilities
spanning 140,000 sq. m., producing
over 25,000 metric tons of products
from pressure vessels and process
skids to wellhead platforms and
subsea equipment for major
partners like ExxonMobil, Shell,
ConocoPhillips, BP and more. With
nearly two decades in the business,
Profab is still ready to take its
business even further.
The Profab Difference
What separates Profab from
its competition? Much of it has
to do with its dedication to the
improvement of its facilities and the
2,000-plus individuals who keep
those facilities in motion day after
day. “Over the years, Profab has
heavily invested in its people and
its facilities,” says Paul McFarlane,
Group Business Development
Manager at Profab. “We believe in
maximizing the work we deliver in
house, to ensure we have strong
and effective control over the
manufacturing process. In this way,
we can ensure that the products we
supply are delivered on time, with
the highest regard for safety, and to
international quality standards.”
It also has to do with the diversity
of Profab’s offering, allowing its
partners to find nearly everything
they need in one place. “We give
new meaning to the term ‘one stop
shop,’ particularly with respect
to modular construction,” says
McFarlane. “The fabrication of
equipment such as pressure
vessels, pipe spooling, and
structural fabrication can all be
performed in the same facility, thus
eliminating the typical interface risks
that arise when various suppliers
are used.”
This product line diversity
requires itself an extensive array
of specialized machinery. Each
Profab employee is highly trained
as a specialist with the appropriate
machinery and skillset. By treating
Profab employees with respect
and care toward their education
and safety, the company is able to
count on the best results possible.
“Profab has always recognized the
importance of its employees and the
key role they play in our business,”
says McFarlane. “This filters
through all aspects of the company,
particularly with a high focus on
health and safety. We believe that if
employees are happy in their work
environment, they will perform their
best – and the performance of
every employee is a key to any
company’s success.”
Expansion for Better Customer
Service
Expansion is a hallmark of a robust
growing business, and Profab fits
the description – after a thorough
sitewide analysis to identify areas in
which the company could improve,
Profab has launched two brand new
specialized workshops built to more
efficiently and effectively serve its
clients.
“We identified specific areas in our
fabrication facility where we could
refine and enhance our productivity,
quality and timeliness of delivery,
and these areas were in painting
and component pre-fabrication –
this analysis led us to building two

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new workshops,” says McFarlane.
“Our workshop No.7 is designed
purely to make prefabricated
components. We have installed
Computer Numerical Controlled
(CNC) machines such as plasma
plate profiling machines, a beam and
section profiling machine, and a pipe
profiling and beveling machine. This
prefabrication shop supports all our
product lines and plays a key role in
manufacturing complex products
which involve tubulars – products
such as Jackets, stingers, and
catwalks. The incorporation of these
machines has significantly improved
our productivity and throughput, as
well as the quality of our product,
through reduced dependence on
human factors in manually marking
and cutting pipe, plate, and steel
sections.”
With a brand new beam and
girder assembly line, Workshop No.
7 also allows Profab to fabricate
large beams and girders on-site
instead of waiting for prefabricated
supplies to arrive from elsewhere.
“The efficiencies obtained from this,
coupled with the low cost centre of
Indonesia, gives us the opportunity
to pass savings to our customers
and differentiates us from other
competition within the region,” says
McFarlane.
Meanwhile, the second new
Profab facility focuses solely
on painting with the help of new
technology to improve both
efficiencies and onsite safety. “Our

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new painting facility includes two blast lines
that enable us to blast and prime full plates and
sections prior to assembly, thus reducing a lot
of the manual blasting – and the associated
occupational health and safety risks that go
with it,” says McFarlane. “Our paint facility also
includes isolated paint bays, which allows us
to blast and paint jobs concurrently to avoid
some of the bottle necks that often occur at
the tail end of projects.”
The Growth Continues
With these expansions behind it, the plan for
Profab’s future is continued steady growth and
more facility expansions to come.
“We have seen steady growth of the business
right from the early days, and we see plenty of
opportunity in front of us to continue to grow and
develop,” says McFarlane. “There are several
options that we have investigated to ensure
that we can continue to build on our Batam
base, but we are also looking at how best to
expand beyond Batam and service our global
clients through a range of facilities.”
As Profab continues to diversify its product
lines and grow its ability to assist its global
partners, even more will look to Profab as their
fabricator of choice.
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I N D U S T RY
Manufacturing and
Energy
H E A D Q U A R T E R S
Singapore
F O U N D E D
1998
E M P L O Y E E S
2,500
R E V E N U E
$100 million
P R O D U C T S /
S E R V I C E S
Heavy Structure,
Mooring System, Pile,
Pressure Vessel, Skid
and Module, Subsea
Structure, Turret, WHP
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