EPCA 2010
| Budapest, Hungary |
2 - 6 Oct 2010
EPCA, the European Petrochemical Association, is a leading Brussels-based international non-profit association dedicated to the global petrochemical business community.
In its 40 years of existence, the EPCA Annual Meeting of representatives of the more than 550 international member companies has become the foremost platform for meeting for the petrochemical business community and its many supplying industries.
EPCA stimulates out-of-the-box thinking in the petrochemical sector and widens its perspectives through lively and controversial debates on topics of interest to its members. EPCA members organize their « business to business » meetings at the EPCA meeting venues. These are attractive, accessible and safe European cities where all key players in the petrochemical business can be met. Top class meeting facilities are available at the meeting venues and also in the EPCA headquarters in Brussels.
EPCA unites the petrochemical industry and its supplying industries on a global scale:
Producers of chemicals in Europe
Producers of chemicals outside Europe
Service providers that generate a substantial part of their turnover from activities performed for or with the chemical industry : chemical supply chain service providers (such as, but not limited to : freight forwarding, 4PL, transport companies whatever the mode, terminaling, handling, warehousing, storage, cleaning), traders and distributors, consultants, engineering companies, surveyors and inspectorates, specialized press, investors and financial service providers
Port & other authorities organized as companies rendering services to the chemical business community
5 Oct 2010
SABIC Signs Long Term Storage Agreement with Oiltanking Stolthaven Antwerp
Sittard, the Netherlands – October 5, 2010 – At the annual meeting of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) in Budapest, SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals and plastics industries, yesterday signed a long-term contract with Oiltanking Stolthaven Antwerp NV for storage services. The agreement, which will go into effect in 2013, will ensure an uninterrupted supply of feedstocks to SABIC’s two major naptha cracking facilities in Geleen, The Netherlands. Oiltanking Stolthaven Antwerp, based in Belgium, will provide state-of-the-art storage with zero-emission tanks that exceeds Belgian environmental regulations, helping SABIC to ensure a sustainable supply chain. Next to that, a new jetty will be constructed facilitating insuring a very reliable service. This long-term partnership underscores SABIC’s strong commitment to its worldwide customers and service providers as well as to its production facilities at the Geleen site in the southern part of the Netherlands.