THERE is nothing fishy about the latest goings-on at Neste Oil's $1.2 billion renewable biodiesel plant in Singapore.

The fact is the Finnish oil refiner has just begun to use waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry to produce its biodiesel.

Announcing this yesterday, Neste said that the waste fish fat is the latest renewable feedstock for its 800,000 tonne per annum...

A MAJOR global producer of oil additives broke ground on a new plant, which is expected to cost up to $150 million, on Jurong Island yesterday. The company, Infineum - a joint venture between energy giants ExxonMobil and Shell - will make calcium salicylate at the plant. The salicylate plant is expected to be fully operational in the fourth quarter of next year and will create about 50 jobs. ...

CHEMICAL giant Dow Corning yesterday opened a business and technology centre in Singapore that will help it meet the region's growing demand for silicone products and services. The facility, the firm's first in the Asia-Pacific region, is in the Solaris building in Fusionopolis, Singapore's research and development hub for physical sciences and engineering. It will be staffed by scientists,...

STRONG demand, especially in Asia, for 'green', environmentally friendly tyres has clearly outweighed eurozone jitters, with Germany's Lanxess saying yesterday that it will go ahead to build a second synthetic rubber plant costing 200 million euros (S$333 million) here. With engineering work already well advanced, it will break ground on the Nd-PBR (neodymium polybutadiene) facility on Sept 11,...

(SINGAPORE) Singapore is pushing ahead on its plans for a coal gasification plant to provide an alternative, competitive feedstock in synthetic gas - a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) - to chemical plants on Jurong Island, in addition to its plans to produce utilities such as steam and power. Following the completion of an earlier feasibility study by a consultant last year, the...