ICES lab to aid Ciba antioxidants project

26 February 2007 15:06  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Singapore’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) and Ciba Specialty Chemicals signed an agreement on Monday, which will see the Swiss major’s antioxidants project aided by a laboratory until it is completed in early 2008.

 

The ICES laboratory, located near Ciba’s Swiss franc (Swfr) 125m ($101.6m) plant on Jurong Island, will support the project’s test trials, product development and training programmes for nine months, said the member institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

 

“By sharing our facilities at an early stage, we aim to offer them our capabilities and infrastructure that will help accelerate the development of their own analytical and product development team in Singapore,” the institute’s executive director Keith Carpenter said.

 

The unit, which will have a capacity of 30,000 tonnes/year, will produce antioxidants and petrochemical derivatives used in plastic product manufacturing for the fast growing polymer industry in Asia and the Middle East, the institute said in a statement.    

 

($1 = Swfr1.23)

By: Keith Tan Liming
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