Cutech takes over West Squadron Marine Services Pte Ltd

West Squadron Marine Services Pte Ltd(Singapore), one of the leading ISO certified marines companies specialized in underwater ship service maintenance, was taken over by Cutech Solutions and Services Pte Ltd. The takeover was finalized on 4th June, 2012 making West Squadron one among the many Engineering companies under Cutech Group’s umbrella and will be headed by Mr Dorian Ball as the new GM of the company. 

West Squadron Marine, renowned for its premium quality & safe work practices, will continue to operate with its same team of highly proficient divers and provide all types of underwater services such as hull cleaning, underwater inspection & repair, propeller polishing, UWILD services, deep and shallow water diving in Singapore, Batam, Malaysia and various other countries. West Squadron is also certified in providing AQIS services to vessels that travel between Australia and the region. Some of the additional services introduced include underwater NDT, ROV and specialty oilfield services under West Squadron Marine’s newly extended portfolio.

With regards to the vision ahead for West Squadron Marine, Mr Dorian Ball said,"As part of CUTECH we are now bigger in terms of our expertise and knowledge base. With Cutech’s management style, capital, technical capability and IT systems, we can increase our size and establish wider and longer-term relationships with larger corporate customers. This will lead to economies of scale and a continuity of work that will leave us as market leaders”.

Cutech, a one-stop solution provider of Engineering services, is confident that this horizontal integration of its underwater marine services by taking over West Squadron Marine will provide it with a greater edge in the Marine and Oil & gas sector. The added engineering & IT expertise and capital invested by Cutech Group has fortified West Squadron Marine to now offer an extended portfolio of services that could help the company gain larger market share in the region.

Mr Dorian Ball, on being part of West Squadron says, “It is a great honour to have been selected to head a diving services company that has been built up so professionally and which already has such a good reputation in Singapore. After we have adjusted to being absorbed into the Cutech Group, settled in our new premises and restarted our operations, with the help of CUTECH’s financial backing and management organisation structures we will be able to outgrow and outperform our competition”.

 It is worth mentioning that both Cutech & West Squadron Marine have previously won the bizSAFE Enterprise Exemplary Awards in Feb 2012 and were two among the four enterprises awarded for the year.