Article: Global goals: the government is working towards making Singapore a world-class hub for the petroleum and petrochemicals industry by the year 2010. (Chemicals).

Singapore is such an established hub for the chemicals sector that it is easy to forget that a few decades ago there was virtually no chemical industry on the island at all. As in other industrial sectors, it has been the government's commitment to building on Singapore's natural competitive advantages and working and planning hard to eliminate any weaknesses that have resulted in its current strength in chemicals and biomedical sciences. But the work is incomplete and the government aims for Singapore to be a world-class hub for the petroleum and petrochemicals industry, generating an output of more than US$75bn by the year 2010. As the list of leading industry players ...

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