Cyclect was founded in Singapore in 1943 by Tan Ai Meng during the Japanese occupation, before Singapore’s independence, and before the industrial base that would define its growth even existed. What followed was not a planned transformation but a disciplined one: each decade brought new sectors, new capabilities and new markets, always anchored to engineering execution and long-term asset performance. Three generations of leadership have carried that forward. The record below traces how the group was actually built.