As part of this year’s National Day Awards, Sir James Dyson, Founder and Chairman, Dyson was awarded the Public Service Star (Distinguished Friends of Singapore) by the Singapore government, in recognition of his contributions to Singapore Commenting on the award, Sir James Dyson said, “This is a great honour and recognition of the whole Dyson team in Singapore. Today we proudly call the historic St James Power Station our global headquarters and our wonderful Singapore engineers and scientists are driving exciting research programmes with Singapore’s excellent universities – it is a highly supportive environment for a high-technology manufacturer such as Dyson”.