Friendly Waters


With clients across Singapore’s extensive condominium market and footholds in the construction of residential buildings, shopping malls and factories, Hydro Dynamic Engineering has made its name supplying water tanks. It has become known for its reliability, cost-effectiveness and ability to provide environmentally sound water storage solutions. It also offers extensive after-sales service such as cleaning and inspections. Managing Director Patrick Tan started the company after a series of frustrations. “I went into a Japanese trading company but, a couple of years later, the economic crisis happened and they decided to wind up, so I was retrenched,” he recalls. He joined another company, but again they parted ways due to circumstances out of his control, in this case mismanagement at senior levels. Deciding to take his fate into his own hands, he established Hydro Dynamic Engineering in 2004, initially focusing on water tanks for domestic use and fire-fighting applications. The early years of being self-employed were marked by hard graft. “When I started the company, it was a one-man show,” Patrick explains. “I was covering everything: sales, delivery, administration, paper work, invoicing customers. It saw me working every day to 2am or 3am.”

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