Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Jurong Island Now


Today, Jurong Island is home to over 88 leading petroleum, petrochemical, specialty chemical and supporting companies from around the world, including the top 50 Global companies like Air Products, Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel, Asahi Kasei, Dainippon Ink and Chemicals etc. Industry luminaries like BASF, BP, Celanese, ExxonMobil, DuPont, Mitsui Chemicals, Chevron Oronite, Shell and Sumitomo Chemical have also taken the opportunity by setting up factories there to reap the benefits of comprehensive infrastructure and production synergies from this unique cluster development for oil, petrochemical and specialty chemicals.

Shell being one the companies on Jurong Island mainly manufactures styrene monomer, propylene oxide, polyether polyols and propylene glycols. The applications of the above mentioned chemicals products will be further explained later in the report. We will be looking into how the production of its chemicals is linked to the production of other products which have widespread applications.

Today, Jurong Island. Tomorrow, the beacon of the chemical world.

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