Renewable Paints

Renewable chemicals deviating from oil and sourced from plants is nothing new. Throughout history mankind has survived through the test of times from nature that ultimately is sourced from the sun. This "nature" comes in various forms, such as oil, plants, minerals etc. We started off using animals for our transport system and later moved to coals, oils, and now we are turning to electricity which harnesses the energy of the sun itself.

Singapore Expanding its Jurong Chemical Site

Singapore is further expanding its chemical offerings, at the Jurong site with a newly announced petrochemical complex by ExxonMobil. This is ExxonMobil second petrochemical complex in Singapore's Jurong Island, a prime area marked by the Singaporean for its chemical industry. The complex comprises of 1 million tonnes per annum ethylene cracker with downstream chemical plants. 

Will advancement of Chemicals create All-in-1 Capsules?

Recently, an interior designer managed to condense the whole room full of furniture and accessories into just one small box. Whilst this is a very traditional way of doing it, it shows a proven concept that compacting objects is a possible solution, and with advancement of technologies can become a reality. 

The chemical industry has seen a lot of advancement and breakthrough technologies recently. New materials are being innovated with amazing properties. In the semiconductor technology, semiconducting material as thin as 1 atom is being touted to become the next breakthrough providing more efficient advance computing and at the same time consuming a much lower power. Other materials in the chemical industry such as speciality polymers and thermoplastics are becoming popular with the recent 3D printing technologies. 

Central Asia Petrochemical Market Outlook 2014

Central Asia petrochemical industry is expected to boom starting from 2014 onwards. Already the continent boasts a few mega refinery-petrochemical integrated projects announced and more are expected to come. The countries in Central Asia have mostly fully recovered from the post-war and Russia influence from the late Soviet Union. 

Having domestic access to its abundant natural resources, central Asia is seen to be the new bridge between the geographical Europe (which includes Russia) and most of Asia. 

World's Biggest Company - It's Saudi Aramco and not Apple Computers!

Many of us when we think of world's biggest company we will picture Apple Inc. Some of us may also include ExxonMobil. To clear the air, the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, is indeed Apple. 

Since 2007, ExxonMobil has been playing chase and run with  ICBC, the Chinese government linked Bank. ICBC took the helm of the world's biggest company with asset figure from ExxonMobil in 2008. After that, the two companies have been switching the top spot. All of these companies are being publicly traded in the New York Stock Exchange making their asset figure public and known. ICBC took the helm as the publicly traded biggest company in the world in 2013.

Under the radar however, lies another story, by reserve asset figure, the world's biggest company is Saudi Aramco, due to its huge reserve of oil within Saudi Arabia. The company has existed for almost a century,

POLAND Building an Integrated Refining Petrochemical Complex

It is very strange to hear any industrial news from Eastern Europe, let alone for a new world-scale integrated refinery-petrochemical complex.

Poland’s LOTOS and Azoty have signed an agreement for a new joint venture via a special purpose vehicle

Robot to Replace Inspection Engineer in the Chemical Industry

We all know how difficult a decision would be for the management of the refining and petrochemical plants when inspection engineers will need to do critical inspection when the integrity of the plant is in doubt. In chemical industry such as production of highly combustible gases and gases that self-ignite upon loss of containment, this is very dangerous.

A Mexican company has come up with a prototype of RoboPipe, a robot that could do the inspection of