Cooling towers are key components for steel manufacturers. They cool water to be used during vital manufacturing processes such as cooling down molten steel alloys.

A pan-Asian steel manufacturer based in western Singapore detected a fault on one of its aging cooling towers, which was around ten years old. It was beyond repair and a replacement could only be delivered and installed in two weeks' time.

A shutdown on one cooling tower would mean losses of more than 40% of production levels, which meant financial losses as well. There was no way it could stomach the substantial losses projected and they required a temporary equivalent to maintain production levels and in meeting the local construction demand. 

And they needed it as quickly as possible.