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Stolt-Nielsen’s Asia Pacific managing director Andrew Pickering talks about the company’s major expansion of its chemical storage role on Singapore’s Jurong Island.
Stolt-Nielsen will build and operate a large chemical terminal on the island’s Tembusu sector. Construction of the terminal’s first phase of around 325,000 cubic metres is scheduled to start up in 2010.
BDP, a specialist logistics services firm for the chemicals industry, is launching a new subsidiary to handle “large and difficult” logistics projects across the globe. Peter Huels, CEO of BDP Project Logistics talks about the company’s growth in Singapore over the last 10 years and its plans in the coming years.
Siemens AG vice-president Dr Wolfgang Bloch shares his thoughts on the continued relevance of climate change and environmental issues despite the current worries over the food and energy crises around the world.
Germany-based specialty chemicals group Lanxess’s managing director Ian Wood explains the company’s decision to build a world-scale 400-million-euro butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island, Singapore, due to be commissioned in 2011.
Lanxess says it expects a sustainable annual market growth for butyl rubber of around 3% per year over the next 15 years. Demand from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong is expected to grow by 6% per year while the Indian market is seen growing by more than 8%.