Transforming chemical operations through technology in China

December 12, 2018

Thousands of chemicals go into making an everincreasing myriad of products, demand for which continues to remain high despite various global challenges. Against this backdrop, chemical companies in fast-growing emerging markets like China have done particularly well in recent years. Looking ahead, however, conditions over the next decade are likely to become more challenging. Demand growth has slowed. And, with considerable capacity expansion over the last decade and to come, margins are already eroded. There are also numerous manufacturing complexities in this sector such volatile costs and prices, as well as products that can be made in different ways with various combinations of materials, across more than one plant at a given company, to achieve the same output.

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United Industrial Chemicals

UNITED INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (U.I.C) is an exporter, importer, stockist and distributor of various Industrial & Lab Chemicals and Lubricants catering primarily to the industries in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Water Treatment etc. UIC operates from its head office located in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and branch offices in Riyadh and Qatar.

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Outstanding process technology Together with the proven furnace technology Linde offers a separation process which is based on a unique sequence with front-end hydrogenation and open loop heat pump driven C2 splitter. These cornerstones of Linde’s technology have been developed during 60 years in cryogenic separation of ethylene from gas mixtures. The separation technology of Linde is superior to other concepts and has been applied to improve the performance even in plants of competitive technologies.

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whitePaper | April 30, 2021

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whitePaper | December 1, 2022

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whitePaper | April 30, 2021

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whitePaper | January 20, 2023

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United Industrial Chemicals

UNITED INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (U.I.C) is an exporter, importer, stockist and distributor of various Industrial & Lab Chemicals and Lubricants catering primarily to the industries in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Water Treatment etc. UIC operates from its head office located in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and branch offices in Riyadh and Qatar.

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