VOL. XXXVI

NO. 15

11-JANUARY-1993

SAUDI ARABIA

SABIC and Taiwanese Partners to Invest $360mn in Diethylhexanol Plant

The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and the Taiwan FertilizerCompany (TFC) will begin construction of a $360mn petrochemical plant in early1993 in the eastern port city of Jubail (MEES, 23 November 1992). The new plantwill produce 150,000 t/y of diethylhexanol - used in the manufacture of plastics- when it comes on stream in 1995. It will be owned and operated by the...