'Proposal for Development of Petrol Chemical Plant on Jurong Island\r'

'Capital input for formula and maintenance of a petrochemical plant is extravagantly because of the vast amounts of electricity and wet id needed to heat up raw materials used in the petrochemical pains from which hydrocarbons be extracted. The main raw materials would be naphtha and kerosene, which be obtained from veget satisfactory oil refineries. A highly skill labour power is required to run the advance machinery.\r\nProcesses\r\nIn the plant, goofy atomic number 18 used to break up life-sized hydrocarbons in refined oil harvest-feasts equal naphtha and gasoline. In the cracker, hydrocarbons heated by steam pass all over the hot catalyst powered alumina-silica gel. The catalyst give ups a huge surface on which the hydrocarbons break up into smaller more useful hydrocarbons. After crackling, the compounds atomic number 18 separated by fractionation. Some of these compounds are get together with other chemicals.\r\nOutputs\r\nProcessed basic petrochemicals su ch as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, isoprene, and xylenes, which are the construction blocks for innumerable chemical products spanning the kitchen stove of the plastic, rubber, and synthetic fiber industries.\r\n education ab expose qualified location\r\nThe proposed location, Jurong Is ground, formed by land reclamation to merge seven transfershore islands off the gray coast of capital of capital of Singapore (figure1), is a highly unified world-class petrochemical complex. Their total is home to leading petrochemical companies a the like(p) Chevron, Sumitomo and Mobil.\r\nFigure 1Location of Jurong Island Figure 2Map of Jurong Island\r\n[d1]Central to the application cluster conceit and wear outment of Jurong Island as an compound complex is the share of common facilities. These include ocean facilities, such as jetties and other berthing facilities; dish outs such as warehousing, groundless(prenominal) treatment, fire fighting, aesculapian and emergenc y response; a common service corridor and infrastructure such as roads and drains.\r\nConnected to mainland Singapore by 2.6 kilometre causeway, Jurong Island is l peerlesssome(prenominal) a ten minutes expedition form furthest part of Jurong Island to the mainland. There are as head bus services plying the entire island.\r\n[email&#clx;protected], which is the amenity centre found on the island itself as the community and emigration hub for Jurong Island customers. The amenity centre houses facilities like an air-conditi unmatchedd food court, an alfresco restaurant, a medical centre, a hardware store and a whatchamacallit store.\r\nThe Chemical Logistics Hub, called Banyan Logistics Hub, is a 80-hectare facility on Jurong Island to serve companies at that place. It give have berths, jetties and other marine facilities that provide gene linkage to the chemical plants via the common service corridors. Logistics services like storage tankfuls, chemical warehouses, tank cl eaning, cleaning and maintenance, drumming, and boast treatment facilities bequeath too be procurable. The Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICES) which go forth be situated on Jurong Island and to be is pass judgment to be completed in early 2003.\r\nReasons for plectrum of Location\r\nThere are more winder factors for the choice of location. Singapore is well positioned to play a key role in the growth of Asia-Pacifics petrochemical industry with an integrated hub on Jurong Island. Many multinational companies are already enjoying the benefits of locating on Jurong Island. Thus Singapores Jurong Island would then be the choice location for the petrochemical plant.\r\nJurong Island was formed by reclaiming the channels between the seven islands in phases, and diluteing beyond into supererogatory sea space to form one big island. When completed, it exit form a land area of about 2,650 hectares from an initial mass of less than 1,000 hectares. This go away p rovide flat land for the building of the plant and also allow future expansion.\r\n as well as the caller will easy access to their customers worldwide, because of Singapores strategic location, world-class transportation and logistics, telecommunication and IT infrastructure.\r\nSingapore also has a highly skilled labour beat back which are specialized in the field of petrochemisty. productiveness of Singaporean proletarians are high as they are noted to have good work status and aptitude which would positively affect total performance and therefore profit. Furthermore there are many regulation patenting to strikes and work stoppages to Singapore thus there would be no worry for decline of productivity because of this. Moveover Chemical Process Technology focalize which will be ready in early 2003 will be situated on Jurong Island, will rollick a deed plant to provide functional knowledge for students from the polytechnics and technical foul institutes so as to find pr ocess technicians that are equipped with the latest technical skill sets to complement their academic knowledge, enabling them to adopt future challenges of petrochemical industries.\r\nThe Chemical Logistics Hub located on Jurong Isalnd itself will provide shippoing infractura other marine facilities would provide linkage to the chemical plants via the common service corridors. Logistics services like storage tanks, chemical warehouses, tank cleaning, cleaning and maintenance, drumming, and waste treatment facilities will also be available This will help be facilite transportion thus make it more competent ans approach efficient . Furthermore it would keep up come to the foreing signal up bell as we would not need in inoccur extear comprise in building these facilities.\r\nSingapore also offers an passing pro-business environment. The government is highly confirmive of set up of petrochemical plants and offer finacial assistance such as value incentives,innovation grant s and low speak to lows which will lower the start up cost.\r\nBeing a petrochemical hub with 70 companies redactiture more than S$21 billion in oil refining, petrochemical manufacturing and specialty chemical manufacturing and supporting facilities on Jurong Island.\r\nThere is a linkage among the companies located in Jurong Island. The oil refinery plants (e.g. Shell), which are also located on Jurong Island, will provide feedstock (e.g. Naphtha) for the petrochemical plant. The plants sidings (processed petrochemicals) to end-users in the vicinity or to ports to be exported to other neighboring countries in mho East Asia. The sitting of the related industries in pen up proximity results in an invisible network of alliance that connects companies on the island, Jurong Islands vertical integration will save about 25 to 30 per cent off capital outlay and 10 to 15 per cent logistics cost. Furthermore Jurong Island is located along tanker routes and the handiness of infacturure such as ports means the plants takingss can be shipped out easily\r\nFuture plans for Expansion\r\nAs the number of petrochemical plants are set up, competition from varies companys will increase (Table 1). To maintain competitiveness and to expand, we must for the first time maxism the output of the current plant.\r\nRamping of production capacity mechanisation machinery improve procedures Second third shifts\r\nMerger and scholarship\r\nExtensive reseach into making production more cost and laboour efficentive, R&D work to set up more efficient production procedures ,continusing to improve standards and skiulls of workers\r\n end for developing of Wafer mythicalrication graft in Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park\r\nTo process bare wafers made topically and distributed its products worldwide\r\nProposal for learning of Wafer Fabrication Plant in Pasir Ris\r\nWafer Fab Park\r\nBrief Information\r\nInput\r\nCapital input for Wafer evasiveness is high because of the expensive star t up cost huge investments with an average direct investment of US$1 billion per pleasing. Raw material is silicon. LA share of skilled labour is needed to run machinesry and to compensate wafer. Enginneres and questioners needed for R&D. High comsumpution of water and electicity.\r\nProcesses\r\nWafer finesse refers to the multiple processes that a wafer goes through to vex an integratred circuit product. A wafer, usually composed of silicon, is the meanspirited material for integrated circuits. ti is processed into piston chamber shaped ingot and then sliced and urbane into mirror-like wafers of uniform thickness. These go through highly particular and complex manufacturing processes such as oxidation, diffusion, thin inject deposition, ion implantation, patterning, cleaning and etching.\r\nOutputs\r\nThe finished wafer contains hundreds of chips which go though additional processes to become finished integrated circuit products. These integrated circuits are inputs for electronics and computer industries.\r\nInformation about qualified location\r\nThe proposed location, Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park is located in the eastern region of Singapore, close to the Tampines Regional Centre and the Tampines Wafer Fab Park and served by the Pasir Ris MRT and Tampines Expressway. About 16.2 ha of the 59.1 ha site has been allocated. Industry luminaries have staked their chips here, including joined Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), the worlds second largest foundry and Systems on Silicon Manufacturing (SSMC).\r\nFigure 1Site Map of Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park\r\nThe car park is fully equppied with specialized infrastructure such as a adequate and uninterrupted supply of electricity and water and a vibration-free environment. The JTC Tampines Dormitory for foreign workers close offers 400 units †which can house up to 4800 workers to provide convienent and comfarable accommodation for foreign workers. The park is located only a ten minutes drive from th e airport.\r\nReasons for select of Location\r\nSingapore is a world-class electronics hub with planetary leadership in manufacturing solutions and in the creation and worry of new products, applications and markets. The electronics industry in Singapore has the highest output in the manufacturing sector, accounting for 55% (or $70.1 billion) of manufacturings total output in 2001. Thus the outlook of starting up a wafer fabrication plant in Singapore is promising. The semiconductor unit industry will be one of the key sectors driving growth in the electronics industry in the future. Its focus will be on integrated circuit (IC) design; wafer fabrication*; and interrogatory and assembly.\r\nSingapore, with different economic and resource conditions from its neighbors, undertook reforms and infrastructure development that would make it an attractive location for regional offices of multinational corporations and increasingly high value-added manufacturing.\r\nSingapore-based MNCs are given incentives, such as tax and fiscal incentives and As the industry uses more new and sophisticated equipment and technology and machine-controlled manufacturing processes, the new jobs created require skilled workers, that is, workers with post-secondary educational qualifications and above. In 1999, 5,000 jobs were created in the electronics industry, of which 42% were jobs that required skilled workers.\r\nTo find out the needs of the industry for skilled manpower, the Economic Development Board (EDB) works with the Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) and research institutes/centres, to carry out research and implement training programmes. In addition, companies are also encouraged to extend their resources to the IHLs to expose students of the state-of-the-art equipment and technology.\r\nOne of the largest IT markets ($7.5 billion) in the APAC region. highly developed business culture. Very open to outsourcing and well established Indian business presence-over 300 Ind ian business houses and 90,000 NRIs based out of here. Is Indias eighth-largest investor with direct integrity investments of about $1.3 billion at end-2001. Indias investment in Singapore has also grown by 14% over the past decade.\r\nAdequte facilites, within wafer fabrication park, company will have advantage of being able to share ideas and information with other companies. Share maintainece and support services and basic amentites such as roads and power.\r\nSingapore headquarters of national and international backs.\r\nWafer fabrication very captital intensive, devoplement agencies in Singapore provide financial help, schemes for loans to start up company help to ease up for set up coast.\r\nIn terms of product positioning, Singapore is more innovative and advanced. Its lands, infrastructure and facilities for wafer fab are all allocated in a authoritative area so companies can actually start working upon moving in to the building in either of the three wafer fab parks.\r\n However, when it comes to living environment, Singapore excels: It has no crime to speak of, offers excellent transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, has high-quality English-language schooling, and is generally a more â€Å"westernized” environment for oversea skilled workers. As testament to that, youll find Germans, Japanese, Koreans, Americans, Chinese and mainland Chinese all working in Singapores semiconductor sector.Good for foreign talent ie Italian and French.\r\nExcellt airport, just airport efficient exporting of wafers worldwide.\r\nPasir Ris has industry luminaries unite Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), the worlds second largest foundry chance of working with large company.\r\nFuture plans for expansion\r\nIs the heart of southeastward Asia and ideal for tapping into closer markets like China, Malaysia, and Australia. APAC headquarters of closely MNCs based out of here. Big business chance in that sector.But base stioll in Singapore.\r\nCar ry out R&D work to develop new, more sophisticated value-added products and more efficient methods of production in fields of wafer fabrication. Turn more to mechanization and automationm to achieve higher productivity.\r\nSet up wafer fabrication plants overseas in countries with lower labour cost such as Taiwan and China tour still having hq in Singapore.\r\nMus t be commited to carrying out product development and manufacturing actieveities in Singapore.\r\nMake Singapore base for manufacturing wafers and headquaters services to transmit factoris in the region go into partnership with EDB inrisk-sharing partnerhip to invest in overseas projects.\r\nCompany to retrain worker to equip themselves with cerfiable and critical high-end skills needed by in production of wafer fabrication, obtain grants from Skills development fund to organise employees for critical skills training.\r\n'