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Report: Sabic opens compounding facilities at Al Jubail
Sabic has opened its first engineering plastics compounding facility as well as a new polypropylene (PP) compounding plant, at its manufacturing affiliate, Saudi Specialty Chemicals Co. (Al Jubail), according to a report from Saudi Gazette. "Both the...

Odfjell and Saudi Arabia’s NCC to discontinue tanker pool
Odfjell Tankers and National Chemical Carriers (NCC; Riyadh) have agreed to dissolve their pool of 40,000–45,000 deadweight (dwt) m.t. coated chemical tankers, effective 1 June....

Ma'aden restarts ammonia and diammonium phosphate plants
Saudi Arabian Mining Co.’s (Ma’aden; Riyadh) subsidiary Ma’aden Phosphate Co. (MPC) has restarted its ammonia manufacturing complex at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia, the company announced today. The 1.1-million m.t./year ammonia plant was...

Sipchem starts up ethyl and butyl acetate complex at Al Jubail
Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem; Al Khubar, Saudi Arabia) has started up its ethyl acetate and butyl acetate manufacturing plant at Al Jubail. The facility is owned by Sipchem Chemicals, a wholly owned Sipchem subsidiary. The plant’s...

Petro Rabigh restarts ethane cracker, estimates hit on second-quarter results of SR180 million
Petro Rabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, says it has completed maintenance work on its ethane cracker at Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The olefins unit had been down since 21 April. Petro Rabigh is carrying out safety checks and is in...

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