- Business
- Riverstone Holdings Limited, an investment holding company listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX:AP4), manufactures and distributes cleanroom gloves, healthcare gloves, and related consumables primarily for high-technology industries including semiconductors, electronics, and hard disk drives; its core products encompass nitrile and natural rubber cleanroom gloves for Class 10 and Class 100 environments under the RS Riverstone Resources brand, finger cots, cleanroom packaging materials, and sourced items such as face masks, hoods, caps, jumpsuits, shoe covers, boots, wipes, and swabs. The company operates integrated manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and Thailand, with additional processing in the People's Republic of China, and maintains sales offices across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, the PRC, and the US, serving major multinational customers like Seagate Technology, Western Digital, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies; exports reach Asia, North America, and Europe. Founded in 1991 and headquartered at 362 Upper Paya Lebar Road in Singapore, Riverstone produces with nine dipping lines yielding around 601 million gloves annually, alongside capacity for 475 million finger cots and 876 tonnes of packaging materials. In recent developments, the company completed construction of six new cleanroom glove production lines and three healthcare glove lines by end-2024, with three additional healthcare lines slated for commissioning in first-quarter 2025 to boost capacity for customized, higher-value products and replace older lines for improved efficiency; it reported 21.8% net profit growth to RM72.2 million in third-quarter fiscal 2024 on 33.9% revenue increase to RM298.4 million, reflecting strong demand in cleanroom and healthcare segments.