Details of Major Chemical Producers in Singapore

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The main chemical manufacturers in Singapore are DuPont, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Caltex, Eastman, Air Products, Shell, BASF, Lonza, Celanese, Vopak, BP Amoco, Mitsubishi Chemical, Mitsui Chemicals, Asahi Kasei, Sumitomo Chemical, Denka, Teijin.

DuPont

Principal Products: Zytel® and Minlon® nylon resins; nylon intermediates, specialities, and polymer; Delrin® acetal resins; LYCRA® elastane.
Main Locations: Jurong Island, Turas Plant, Pulau Island and Sakra.

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Chemical's world-scale Singapore chemical plant on Jurong Island supplies petrochemical products to the Asian market. The US$2 billion petrochemical facility, the company's single largest investment in the Asia Pacific region, has four plants designed to deliver a wide range of petrochemical products to customers. The centrepiece is an 800,000 tpa steam cracker, which produces ethylene, propylene and other products for several downstream chemical plants in and around Singapore. The facility also features a 480,000-ton-per-year polyethylene plant, the largest single reactor plant of its type in the world, a 315,000-ton-per-year polypropylene plant, a 150,000-ton-per-year oxo alcohol plant and a 155-megawatt cogeneration unit that provides power to both the refinery and the chemical plant.

Chevron Oronite

Chevron Oronite is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of performance additives for fuels and lubricating oils. It is a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, one of the world’s largest integrated petroleum companies. Chevron Oronite Pte Ltd is located at Singapore's Jurong Island Chemical Complex; it is the Asia Pacific Region sales headquarters and home of the newly built Singapore manufacturing plant. It is the largest additive manufacturing plant in the Asia Pacific region. The plant manufactures more than 25 unique additive components and intermediates, and blends more than 150 finished formulations to specific customer requirements.

Chevron Phillips

Chevron Phillips has several facilities in Singapore:

Caltex

The Caltex group of companies is Singapore's largest company with annual turnover of US$8billion, equivalent to 11.6% of Singapore's total GDP. Caltex is the leading oil trader in Singapore and is the headquarters for Caltex' worldwide trading and supply activity handling 1.2 million barrels of crude oil and refined products every day. Apart from trading, its activities include marketing, refining and bulk terminal operation/blending. Caltex has a one-third share in the Singapore Refining Company, a 285,000 bpd capacity export refinery.

Eastman Chemical

Eastman is the world’s largest supplier of polyester plastics for packaging; a leading supplier of coatings raw materials, speciality chemicals and plastics; and a major supplier of cellulose acetate fibres and basic chemicals. The company is one of the top 10 global suppliers of custom-manufactured fine chemicals for pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals and other markets.
Eastman Chemical in Singapore is the regional headquarters and has a manufacturing facility located in the Singapore.

Air Products

Air Products is represented in Singapore by Air Products Singapore Pte Ltd. Incorporated in May 1995, Air Products Singapore is wholly owned by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APCI), the world's only combined gases and chemicals company. Air Products Singapore, has a workforce of over 100. Air Products is also represented by Air Products Asia, which is the Asia regional headquarters.
From its air separation and hydrogen/syngas plants located in Jurong Island, Air Products Singapore delivers supplies of gaseous oxygen and nitrogen via an extensive pipeline network to major chemical and petrochemical industry customers. Air Products Singapore also operates a fleet of road tankers delivering liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid argon to on-site storage tanks at its customers' facilities throughout Singapore. As well as being a leading supplier of bulk quantities of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, helium and hydrogen to industries in Singapore, the company also supplies a full range of high purity gases and related equipment and services to the semiconductor industry.

Shell

Shell was established in Singapore in 1891. Since then, Shell has become one of Singapore's largest foreign investors, with investments in petroleum and petrochemicals in access of S$7.4 billion.
Shell's 430,000 barrels-per-day Bukom refinery is the largest Shell refinery in the world in terms of crude distillation capacity, making Singapore a key regional supply and trading centre for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in the Far East. Some 90% of Bukom's products are exported to countries in the region and beyond. In 1998, the Bukom refinery became the first refinery in Southeast Asia to receive ISO 14001 certification, underlining the strong emphasis which Shell places on environmental care and responsibility.
In the domestic market, Shell is the leading retail network brand in Singapore, providing customers with a wide range of quality products and services. Since 1998, Shell has been the only retail network to offer four superior grades of petrol products as well as diesel. In addition to the Shell-owned Seraya Chemicals Pte Ltd, Shell also has significant participation in Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS), Ethylene Glycols Singapore (EGS), The Polyolefin Company (TPC), CRI/Criterion Manufacturing Singapore (Pte) Ltd, and Infineum Singapore Pte Ltd.

BASF

BASF Singapore Pte. Ltd. was formally established on 1 January 1990 and is located in the Singapore central business district together with BASF South East Asia Pte. Ltd. The main products are:

Plastics raw materials: Polystyrene, under the trade name of Polystyrol® is supplied to the electronic industry while expandable polystyrene like StyroporR and other foam plastics are used for packaging applications and construction. Polyurethanes such as Lupranat® serve the construction and home products industries. Engineering plastics which cater to the automotive and household appliances industries include Ultradur® , Ultramid® , Ultraform® , Ultrason E® and Ultrason S® .

Industrial chemicals: Inorganic chemicals, glues, plasticisers for PVC, industrial chemicals for paints, chemical intermediates for pharmaceuticals and other industrial raw materials.

Fine chemicals: Fragrance aroma chemicals for the cosmetics and food industry. Vitamins such as LutavitR for the food and feed industry.

Pigments & dyestuffs: Auxiliaries and finishing agents for a wide range of industries, from textiles to paints, printing inks, office requisites and others.

Lonza

Lonza Singapore plant is located in the heart of the world scale industrial complex of the Jurong Islands, South-West of Singapore central business district. The plant provides pure Isophthalic Acid (PIA) and its raw material metaxylene. PIA is used in the manufacture of unsaturated polyester resins, PET bottle-grade resins, waterborne and solvent free coatings.

Celanese

Celanese, a member of the Hoechst group, is the world's biggest producer of acetic acid. The company supplies about 25% of the worlds acetic acid market. Celanese built a new petrochemical complex including an acetic acid plant in Singapore, sited next to the Celanese 170,000 tonnes/year vinyl acetate monomer facility at Palau Sakra. The 100,000 tpa ethyl and butyl acetate plant began production in January 2000, and the 500,000 tonnes/year acetic acid plant in July 2000. The esters plant came into production in February 2000. The three plants form an integrated petrochemical complex. Thus, some of the acetic acid will be used as feedstock for Celanese' vinyl acetate monomer facility.
The feedstock for the Celanese complex is currently sourced from the Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore's naphtha cracker, also on Jurong Island.

Vopak

Vopak Terminals Singapore Pte Ltd started in Singapore in 1980 with the construction and operation of the first independent terminal for petroleum products at Pulau Sebarok ‐ it was then known as Van Ommeren Tank Terminal Singapore. Today Vopak Terminals Singapore Pte Ltd operates two terminals in Singapore, one at Pulau Sebarok and one at Pulau Sakra, with plans for further expansion. Vopak Terminals Singapore Pte Ltd is owned by Royal Vopak of The Netherlands (69.5%) and the PSA Corporation (30.5%). Vopak’s Sebarok terminal has a total of 951,000 cbm of storage capacity for petroleum products, chemicals and petrochemicals. The terminal at Sakra has 250,000 cbm of storage capacity for chemicals and petrochemicals ‐ of these 15,000 cbm are available for third party storage with the balance 235,000 cbm dedicated for the use of the manufacturing plants located at the island there. Both terminals are ISO 9002 certified and are equipped with computerised controls and communications systems. Facilities are built to international standards for environmental care and engineering integrity.

Royal Vopak offers logistics and distribution services to the chemical and oil industries and end-users of chemicals throughout the world. The organisation has a global logistics network of terminals, tankers and tank containers and a North American and European distribution network of warehouses, customers and end-users. This places Royal Vopak in a unique position to be the link between producer and end-user of chemicals and oil products.

Mitsui Chemicals

Mitsui Chemicals has two subsidiaries operating in Singapore.

Mitsui Bisphenol Singapore Pte Ltd, or MBS for short, is a 100% subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI), one of Japan’s largest industrial chemical manufacturers and suppliers. The Bisphenol-A (BPA) plant at Jurong Island, opened in 1999, the first of its kind to be constructed in Asia, has a nameplate capacity of 70,000 tpa. BPA is a principal raw material for polycarbonate.

Mitsui Phenol Singapore (MPHS) Pte Ltd opened a US$170 million phenol plant on Pulau Sakra in 2001. The plant, using MCI’s competitive technologies, produces 200,000 tons of phenol and 120,000 tons of the by-product, acetone, annually. MCI is the largest phenol supplier in Asia and second largest in the world.

Sumitomo Chemical

Sumitomo Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd, has production facilities for acrylic acid, its derivatives, MMA monomer and PMMA resins in Pulau Sakra in Singapore. The production site at Palau Sakra also has an ethylene cracker. Pulau Sakra is located in the south of Pulau Ayer Merbau and both islands are positioned as a core of the Jurong Chemical Island project.

Summary of Sumitomo Chemical’s Presence in Singapore

Denka

Denka Singapore Private Limited has two main divisions:

Teijin

Teijin Polycarbonate Singapore Pte Ltd has established a plant on Jurong Island in response to a growing demand for polycarbonate resin, Teijin continues to expand production capacity at its plant in Singapore. Annual production capacity reached 250,000 tons in summer 2001 and will increase to 300,000 tons in 2002.

Mitsubishi Chemical

Mitsubishi Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd is an overseas affiliate of Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation, based in Tokyo Japan. The Singapore office is mainly involved in liaison, export and import activities. In recent years, Shell Eastern has taken over Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation’s (MCC) 30% share in Seraya Chemicals Singapore, thereby giving Shell full ownership of the existing SM/PO(Styrene Monomer/Propylene oxide) plant, MCC acquired capacity rights for up to 380,000 tpa of SM production from both the existing and new plants.

MGC (Mitsubishi Gas Chemical): With an annual production capacity of 10,000 metric tons in terms of mPPE at its Yokkaichi plant as an integrated facility for production from monomer to PPE powder, and with the related production and sales of mPPE by Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation, MGC is strongly positioned as the worlds third largest manufacturer of PPE powder from the monomer, after Asahi Chemical. For MGC, the joint establishment of the production facility in Singapore is part of the corporate program for the expansion of its engineering plastics operations as a high-priority corporate business sector, in accordance with the corporate concept of Selection and Concentration as a central element of the corporate mid-range MGC SHINKA21 program.

Asahi Kasei

In January, 2001, the company changed its name from Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. to Asahi Kasei Corporation, with contribution to human life and advances based in science and the human intellect as the basic tenets of the Asahi Kasei Group.
In March 2001, construction began on a fully integrated mPPE (Polyphenylene ether) production facility on Jurong Island, Singapore, with commercial start-up scheduled for October 2002. The facility comprises a 30,000 ton/year PPE powder plant to be jointly operated with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc., and Asahi’s own 2,6-xylenol plant to supply feedstock for PPE powder production and 48,000 ton/year Xyron mPPE plant.
In conjunction with new facilities to be constructed at the same location by Asahi Chemical for 2,6-xylenol and modified PPE resin (mPPE), the PPE powder facility will constitute a key part of a major new base in Singapore for the integrated production of mPPE from raw materials to product resin. From this production base, Asahi Chemical will also conduct the sales of 2,6- xylenol, the starting material for PPE powder, as well as the mPPE produced from PPE powder at this facility.
With a current annual mPPE production capacity of 35,000 metric tons at its plant at Sodegaura in Chiba Prefecture, Asahi Chemical is second, after GE of the U.S.A. Particularly in Asia, the demand for mPPE is growing in applications related to the rapidly expanding production of IT equipment and devices.

BP Amoco

BP Singapore has enjoyed rapid progress since its establishment in 1964. Over the years, BP Singapore has grown in size and span of activities - from domestic operation to a regional centre for BP Amoco Group in oil refining, trading and marketing of products and chemicals.
Singapore is a global hub for trade and communications, BP Singapore has been serving the international shipping and aviation industries.

Crude Oil Distillation Capacity (BP Asia) 2000

Note: BP's share of equity, which is not necessarily the same as BP's share of processing entitlements.

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