US ambassador visits Octal Petrochemicals.US ambassador visits Octal A numbering system that uses eight digits. It is used as a shorthand method for representing binary characters that use six-bits. Each three bits (half a character) is converted into a single octal digit. Okta is Greek for 8. Petrochemicals Oman-based Octal Petrochemicals [www.octal.com] received the US ambassador to Oman, Gary A. Grappo Gary A. Grappo is the current (as of October 2006) Ambassador to Oman, a position he has held since from March 6, 2006. Prior to becoming ambassador, Grappo was Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Counselor of the United States Mission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. , during his tour of the southeast city of Salalah last week. Ambassador Grappo visited Octal's clear rigid plastic sheet facility and viewed the much larger integrated PET resin and sheet plant under construction. The Ambassador was accompanied on the tour by a senior delegation of Octal officials led by Patrick J. Corcoran, Operations Director APET APET Amorphous Polyethylene Terephthalate APET Accident Progression Event Tree APET Algorithms Program Evaluation Tool APET Adaptable Performance Evaluation Testbed APET Australasian Perpetual Equity Trust APET Avionics Post-mission Evaluation Team sheet. Octal recently announced plans to increase capacity in PET (polyethylene polyethylene (pŏl'ēĕth`əlēn), widely used plastic. It is a polymer of ethylene, CH2=CH2, having the formula (-CH2-CH2-)n terephthalate Ter`eph´tha`late n. 1. (Chem.) A salt of terephthalic acid. ) resins to 800,000 metric tons by May 2010, making it one of the world's largest polyester producers. Production at its new integrated facility in Oman's southeast city of Salalah will start in July and reach 330,000 metric tons per annum Per annum Yearly. in capacity by March 2009. Around half of the capacity will be in PET resin and the rest in amorphous Unorganized or vague. A lack of structure. For example, the amorphous state of a spot on a rewritable optical disc means that the laser beam will not be reflected from it, which is in contrast to a crystalline state which will reflect light. See crystalline. PET sheet. Commenting on the Ambassador's visit, Octal board member Rashid Saif Al Sadi said: "Oman and the US enjoy strong trade relations and Octal will significantly increase Oman's non-oil exports to the US." "It was an honour to receive the US Ambassador and a valuable opportunity to show how US and Omani industry is collaborating in Salalah, and the scale of our growth plans." .../2-2- "Octal is creating jobs in Salalah, recruiting the best talent from around the region and the world, and innovating new technology that will move the plastics industry forward." Based at Salalah Free Zone, Octal Petrochemicals' integrated PET and APET sheet production plant is being built at an initial cost of US$300 million. Total investment on the site is set to rise to as much as US$1.2 billion upon completion. Net exports are expected to reach US$1.1 billion by 2011. [c] 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) |
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