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A Beginner’s Guide To Pool Chemistry

July 6, 2018

If you’ve recently bought a pool or are thinking about doing so, you’ve no doubt heard a lot about pool chemistry. Maintaining the right chemistry in your pool water could be the most important job you’ll have as a pool owner. That along with proper sanitization is how you keep it crystal clear and safe for swimmers. But what is pool chemistry, you ask?

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PT Energi Sejahtera Mas (ESM)

PT ENERGI SEJAHTERA MAS (ESM), an oleochemical manufacturer located in Dumai, Riau, Indonesia is a subsidiary company of Sinarmas CEPSA Pte Ltd, a joint venture company of CEPSA Petrochemicals (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.) and Sinarmas Agribusiness & Foods. Sinarmas CEPSA's vision is to become a global leading player in the fatty alcohol surfactant market focused on creating value for our customers and stakeholders while being a responsible and sustainable corporate citizen in all the communities when we are present. Our company’s ambition is to achieve a leading position in fatty alcohols and its derivatives, with the combined strengths of its shareholders: Cepsa, as the worldwide leader in linear alkylbenzene (LAB), precursor of the most versatile surfactant- across the globe linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) and GAR, Indonesia’s largest producer of palm oil, the most efficient vegetable oil in terms of productivity.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Pool Chemistry