- The former ST Engineering Land Systems and former ST Engineering Aerospace did not function as independent subsidiaries, but rather (at least up to the end-2020) as functional divisions of ST Engineering (similar to the concept of Siemens Mobility and Siemens Digital Industries, for a direct example). However, Effective 1 January 2021, ST Engineering no longer officially group as Aerospace, Electronics, Land Systems and Marine division, instead reorganised as Commercial and Defence & Public Security clusters. See https://www.stengg.com/en/newsroom/news-releases/st-engineering-reorganises-for-global-growth-and-success/ Therefore, it would be no longer appropriate to elaborate them as separated divisions (on the basis that the lines are no longer clear or existent)
- The history section of all 3 articles are incomplete and partially over-generalised, especially missing the part on Singapore Technologies Group. (Singapore Technologies Group not ST Engineering, but the main encompassing entity of ST Engineering, ST Telemedia, CapitaLand and all other former chartered business spin-offs up till it was dissolved in 2004, with assets transferred under Temasek Holdings) For details, the Singapore National Library Board article on Singapore Technologies Group https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=f451bb81-b193-44ac-a235-be03316909f1 would be very informative and relevant for reference. This part of the picture is extremely important as of how and why the company is able to diversity into non-defense industries (such as provision of sub-systems for the Singapore MRT), and eventually having engineering related divisions reorganised into 1 engineering entity.
**However, this part would be slightly tricky (can be a secondary discussion by itself whether to have a dedicated article, or to tug it in the history of Temasek Holdings.) For this merger proposal, the focus would be the companies that eventually made up the functional divisions and critical service components of the ST Engineering Limited (i.e. Sheng-Li, which includes its subsidiary Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS), as well as spin-off ventures ST Electronic and Engineering, ST Automotive (which forms part of former ST Kinetics), ST Aerospace, ST Shipbuilding (which forms part of former ST Marine), ST Capital, ST Computer Systems & Services)
- I agree that this company would be a BIG BIG pain to write on and would require a lot of sources that might be offline (e.g. news articles, reports etc), but I believe merging the articles of the former Land Systems and former Aerospace divisions and documenting it would present greater coherence and clarity to the messy history that wasn't well elaborated in the articles presently. Especially that there wasn't coverage on other former functional divisions, taking an example ST Engineering Electronics. A proper "History" and "Area of Business" section would do the job well.
JohnLim99 (talk) 09:06, 30 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
