SABIC showcases commitment to help power global customers' competitive advantage at NPE 2012

As host of NPE’s largest booth from any resin manufacturer, SABIC is showcasing its unmatched commitment to the plastics industry – underscoring its focus on helping to power the competitive advantage of its customers around the globe. The booth brings to life the company’s ever-evolving understanding of its customers’ businesses coupled with its world-class technology expertise to demonstrate how SABIC listens, collaborates and jointly solves problems to help fuel their customers’ market success. Specifically, the company is highlighting game-changing case studies that demonstrate how it helps customers address current trends and unique challenges across key global industries including automotive, consumer, energy, infrastructure, healthcare and transportation. In the last year alone, the company has made a number of announcements that demonstrate SABIC’s “actionable” commitment to the industry and to its customers. They include: Strategic technology investments in polyurethane, POM, MMA, PMMA, and carbon fibers – all designed to help SABIC better meet the growing and unmet needs of existing and future customers. Vital polycarbonate capacity investments: from the commissioning of Saudi Kayan’s polycarbonate plant, to SABIC and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation’s (SINOPEC) joint production complex featuring SABIC-owned polycarbonate production technology (the ground breaking ceremony is April 3, 2012), to a new engineering thermoplastics compounding facility in Chongqing Xiyong Micro-electronics Industrial Park. These expansions enhance the ease of doing business with SABIC by strategically positioning global capacity where customers need it most. Establishment of two new Technology Centers in China and India. These research and development facilities are expected to be operational after the second quarter of 2013 and end of 2012, respectively. Both centers will spearhead research and development of new engineering thermoplastic and petrochemical materials that can be used in a wide range of industries that include automotive, personal electronics, alternative energy, among others. “We use our customer and industry knowledge coupled with our unparalleled technology expertise to constantly improve our product portfolio both in breadth and customer relevance,” said Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh, SABIC vice president, Low Density and Linear Low Polyethylene, Polymers. “Our innovative material solutions, design assistance, processing support, and delivery solutions enable us to proactively address our global customers’ evolving needs.”