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October 2011

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Inspiring ideas to be born in Asia

COMPANY NEWS

PolyOne to build facility in the Middle East

Wind market creates opportunity for isophorone

Sabic puts in more investments in China

Compounder to pump up business in China

BMS to build PC sheet plant in China

Mammoth Sadara to be finalised

Oxea goes to China

MATERIALS NEWS

Dutch high-performance tape facility

Joint venture to expand Chinese PET film capacity

On the holy grail of creating "perfect plastics"

MACHINERY NEWS

Piping machinery improvements from suppliers

INJECTION MOULDING ASIA

New software solutions

Canadian/Japanese tie-up firmed

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Sabic puts in more investments in China

abic Innovative Plastics is setting up a compounding plant for engineering resins in Chongqing, West China, which is an area already established as a hub for computer, consumer electronics and automotive sectors. The facility will open in 2013.

Against the back of a 10% growth expected in the petrochemicals sector in China, Sabic has made other investments such as the US$1 billion joint venture (with Sinopec) polycarbonate plant in Tianjin City, with an annual capacity of 260,000 tonnes.

The second investment is in new production lines for its Lexan polycarbonate resins and films in both Shanghai and Nansha in 2012. This comes on the heels of a similar Lexan compounding expansion in Nansha late last year.