29 November 2017
Petrochemicals Company of the Year
Sadara Chemical Company
Sadara Chemical Company was founded in 2011 as a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical Company to further the ambitions of the kingdom's Vision 2030 and to shift Aramco's focus further into the downstream. Sadara has built the world's largest single-phase chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. With 26 integrated world-scale manufacturing plants, the facility is expected to produce more than 3m tonnes of high-value-added plastics and chemical products each year. Sadara also operates the region's first mixed feed cracker. Through cracking naptha, the firm hopes to offer products for a variety of industries: automobile parts, care products, water treatment chemi
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