Sipchem Marketing Company (an affiliate of the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) took another important step forward to strengthen its global petrochemical marketing and service delivery when it formally opened its office in Singapore.

Sipchem’s Chairman Abdulaziz Al-Zamil, Ahmad Al-Ohali, chairman of Sipchem Marketing Company (SMC), and other company officials attended the event.

The chairman said that both Sipchem and SMC were particularly pleased to be able to strengthen their relationship with Singapore through the opening of an office.

“Singapore is a well-established and important logistics and trading hub for the petrochemical industry and an ideal gateway for delivering excellent service to customers throughout Asia,” said Abdulaziz Al-Zamil

Ahmad Al-Ohali emphasized that the opening of the Singapore office demonstrates SMC’s commitment to delivering world class services to its customers throughout Asia.

“The opening of an office in Singapore signals a clean break from our past practice of servicing customers’ needs through off takers and distributors, and emphasizes the importance SMC places on its customers throughout Asia” said Al-Ohali.

“The Sipchem Singapore office will initially sell and market all Sipchem’s products directly to enhance transparency and customer relations versus past reliance on marketing by specialized marketing companies,” Al-Ohali said. “This year, Sipchem is marketing globally all of its products from the Butanediol plant and it is also increasing its marketing volumes of Methanol. Our marketing expansion plans have been completed in anticipation of selling new products that will come on steam later during this year,” said Al-Ohali.

SMC, the marketing arm of the Sipchem group of companies, was formed in 2007 with the express purpose of delivering world class services and petrochemical products internationally.