ISSUE 79April

■ EVENTS

ChemChina president makes Singapore visit

Ren Jianxin visits Qenos

Makhteshim Agan Industries global business gets

a new name

Bluestar Adisseo joins Fermentalg in animal

nutrition development

The Qenos SHE Excellence Awards for 2013

1

2

■ SAFETY CULTURE

■ EMPLOYEE WORLD

8

9

Best wishes for ChemChina’s 10th anniversary

Children's Drawings Collection for "FUTURE CHEMICAL PLANTS"

6

7

Safety measures for springtime

University health expert talks about female employee health care

Workers home for employeesChemChina meeting for female employee

discussions

Searching for ChemChina’s most beautiful

employees

Nanjing Adisseo methionine plant goes into

operation

Changsha Institute wins the first high-value

contract in 2014

Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery’s solar

photovoltaic power generation project comes

online

Maritime Chemical Research Institute 863

project gets acceptance

Hunan Haohua wastewater treatment plant

renovation gets acceptance

Lishan Motor special-purpose vehicle products

going to Angola

Beijing Bluestar Science and Technology helps

set national standards for coolant

3

4

5

ISSUE 79 EVENTS

April 2014 1

ChemChina’s pres ident, Ren Jianxin, paid a visit to ChemChina

(Singapore) Pte, on Feb 16, for a survey of the business operations there and to discuss its performance in 2013 and the work that lies ahead in 2014. Ren praised the company’s rapid growth in such a short timeframe and affirmed their plan to increase the credit line from banks and ensure sufficient supplies for domestic refineries and work harder to develop the fuel oil and crude oil transit trade. A top priority for the company this year is to establish a risk control system. Ren also laid out the specific steps and work the Singapore branch must take next. ■

Re n J i a n x i n , P r e s i d e n t o f ChemChina, and Robert Lu,

President of Bluestar, went to Australia to visit Qenos’ olefin plant in Altona.

They l i s tened to repor t s by Jonathan Clancy, CEO of Qenos, and his management on the company’s plan to expand business. They also carried out field research on the recently built unit that had a total investment of 195 million Australian dollars ($174.28 million). Andrew Lake, director of operations of Qenos, and Duncan Laslett, director of the olefin plant, gave an elaborate introduction of the project, including the ethylene

purifying column, compressor and 21-megawatt combined heat and power generation. They said that the project can supply electricity and steam for the whole Altona plant and continue to keep Qenos’ capacity of polyethylene and petrochemicals in top place in Australia.

In the end, Ren Jianxin expressed his satisfaction over Botany Plant’s 12 years of effective operation and the fact that its overhaul plan was deferred to 2015. On behalf of ChemChina, Ren spoke highly of Peter Beattie, director of the plant, and his team members. ■

Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) recently announced

plans for a brand-new global brand, ADAMA, this April, for use worldwide. MAI is a global leader in crop protection and, to support the application of this new brand, officially changed its name to Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd on Jan 23, 2014. The brand change will be applied region-by-region worldwide for the global launch, with overall appl icat ion scheduled for a late-2015 completion. “Adama” means “earth” or “soil” in Hebrew and re f lect s the company’s commitment to agr icu l tura l development worldwide, with the focus on farmers. During the brand transition process, it expects to reduce its many local brands portfolio and streamline its product mix by putting it under a single brand. ■

ChemChina president makes Singapore visit

Ren Jianxin visits Qenos Makhteshim Agan Industries global

business gets a new name

April 2014 2

ISSUE 79 EVENTS

Bluestar Adisseo joins Fermentalg

in animal nutrition development

The Qenos SHE Excellence Awards for 2013

Bluestar Ad i s seo, a g loba l

leader in animal nutrition,

announced its new partnership

with Fermentalg, a biotechnology

company specializing in microalgae

molecular and chemical compound

products, on Feb 11. The two will

develop new-generation animal

feed products using their respective

expertise. Pierre Calleja, the

founder, President and CEO of

Fermentalg, said, “Microalgae’s

un i que metabo l i c s t r u c tu re

incorporates the advantages of

animal and plants and have a

nutritional structure and biological

value similar to that of fish meal,

which provides a sustainable

solution to the under-supply of

protein products worldwide.”

In speaking about the Bluestar

Adisseo partnership, Calleja said,

“We’re honored to be able to

work with an industry leader like

Adisseo for the industrialization

of our breakthrough technology in

the microalgae field and develop

new animal feed products using the

microalgae organism technology we

use in human nutrition.”

The CEO of Bluestar Adisseo,

Jean-Marc Dublanc commented,

“Fermentalg’s vision, industry

experience, resources and original

technology are highly competitive

in every way, and are enough to

bring this breakthrough product to

the market.” ■

The Qenos Sa fe t y Hea l t h &

Environment Excellence Awards

were held recently to celebrate a host

of outstanding SHE submissions for

the 2013 year.

Teams and individuals from all sites

across Botany, New South Wales and

Altona, Victoria shared their detailed

presentations with government

officials, regulators, community

members, contractor representatives

and Qenos colleagues.

Qenos CEO Jonathan Clancy

commented "This is my favorite

time of the year at Qenos. We get

to recognise the outstanding efforts

of individuals and work groups who

identify these projects. Apart from

the business benefits which flow

from such SHE improvements, our

employees are providing individual

ownership and responsibility for

staying safe and healthy."

At Botany, two awards were

presented - the first in the category of

Safety & Health and the second in the

Environment & Sustainability category.

The Alkatuff team won the Safety

& Health prize for their submission

on Deactivation of the Product Purge

Bin Using Carbon Dioxide. Some of the

major benefits of this project included

eliminating the risks associated

with filter changes; potential fire

risks; working at heights and manual

handling; dust exposure and the use of

poorly designed lifting equipment.

At Altona, the combined Shifts,

Mechanical, I&E and Day Support

from Olefins were announced as

winners for their submission 'Safety

Days at Olefins'. Shift Team Leader,

Greg Archer provided an overview

of the various promotions each

Olefins team used to support their

safety campaign which included

safety competitions; crosswords;

dedicated safety days and a focus on

keeping safe in the lead-up to the

holiday season. A rather powerful

exhibition was also featured in the

Main Control Room entrance with a

display of workers' overalls depicting

the number and nature of injuries

the workforce had experienced and

the focus needed to prevent further

personal injury statistics.

Each work group decided their own

activity to deliver their formidable

safety message - "What are you

doing today to ensure you and your

workmates are safe?" ■

April 2014 3

ChemChina meeting for female employee discussions

Searching for ChemChina’s most

beautiful employees

ChemChina’s trade union held a meeting on March 7 for female

employees to discuss the topic “Charming women, career women”, , and the “One center and two priorities” of the ChemChina CEO’s report and how to use female employees’ advantages ful ly to improve their work. ChemChina president, Ren Jianxin spoke with the female employees and gave them his best wishes for the upcoming Women’s Day. ChemChina’s vice-president, Ren Jianming, hosted the meeting and delivered a wrap-up speech, with 18

female employees form ChemChina HQ, and the deputy-Party secretary, Fu Xiangsheng, closed the meeting.

The female employees said they will properly handle their work-life balance as career women and improve themselves personally and professionally to take full advantage of their affinity with the people. Ren said that female employees play a significant role in company growth and operations and encouraged them to make a difference in marketing especially in e-commerce through their unique advantages. He said

he expected all female employees to fully understand the company’s overall strategy and try to inspire the i r co l leagues to implement company policies.

In conclusion, Fu extended his best wishes to the female employees on behalf of the Party and praised their efforts in business growth, especially in response to the financial crisis, overcapacity problems and business restructuring over the past several years. He said ChemChina will consider their constructive suggestions and ensure their implementation. ■

A p r o g r a m d e s i g n e d t o identify the most beautiful

ChemChina employees began recently as a way to celebrate ChemChina’s 10th anniversary a n d t o m a r k t h e o f f i c i a l commencement of its anniversary celebrations. This program has two sections -- “Heroic deeds” and “Professionalism” -- with the former focusing on some moving experience of frontline workers to convey their positive outlook on life, and the latter intended to identify the frontline workers with a long dedication to business growth. This year, the program will be a part of the ChemChina medal competition. Other events include a photo a l b u m o f C h e m C h i n a ’s 1 0 Years, with people asked to contribute photos that depict their dedication and children’s d r a w i n g s t h a t d e p i c t t h e chemical plants of the future. The photo shows a poster for the program. ■

ISSUE 79 EVENTS

April 2014 4

Nanjing Adisseo methionine plant

goes into operation

Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery’s solar photovoltaic power generation project comes online

Changsha Institute wins the first high-value contract in 2014

A liquid methionine production line of Nanjing Adisseo, the

world’s largest of its kind and China’s first, recently went into operation and its products are comparable to those from Adisseo’s facility in Burgos, Spain. This means that China can now manufacture liquid methionine for the first time in history, thus moving its animal feed industry up the chain to support greater breeding. In addition to this Nanjing plant, Adisseo has six solid and liquid methionine plants in France and Spain

Nanjing Adisseo began working on the liquid methionine plant (AT88) back in July 2009, on a 640- hectares site in the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park, following a design based on the Burgos plant. A 70,000-t/a plant went into operation in late 2013 in the first phase, with the second phase expected to be completed in 2016. Adisseo brought world-c l a s s t e chno l ogy, p roduc t s , industry standards and services to the Nanjing plant and its best technicians and managers from more than 20 countries, to Nanjing, producing a project team of several dozen people. Bluestar Adisseo will improve its parameters, increase its value, provide high-quality methionine products, meet the growing demand in the Asia–Pacific region’s breeding industry, and grow along with its partners. The methionine plant is important to ChemChina and Bluestar’s regional and Asia Pacific presence and restructuring. ■

Recently, a photovoltaic power generation plant was successfully

built at Bluestar (Beijing)Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd, as 25000 m2 solar panel was put into use for commercial-scale power generation, thus adding another layer to the energy structure of the company, ensuring the sufficient power supply to the factory and reducing its energy costs. Currently, two phases of solar photovoltaic power generation project were completed at the company, with solar panels deployed on all campus building roofs to provide an installed capacity of 1.3 megawatts. It is predicted that annual power output of 1.411 million kWh will be achieved, 478 tons of standard coal saved, 1253.3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions and dust emissions avoided, as well as electricity savings of about 0.55 million Yuan per year.

In response to the governmental and corporate call for energy saving and emission reduction and keeping in line with its corporate vision of becoming a green chemical company, the company not only works on its production process

but also seeks maximum social benefits by going green in its production process.

To achieve these goals, the company initiated cooperation with a solar energy company in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area with the help of the Area’s management committee last year, implementing a mutually beneficial energy saving and environmental project using the latter’s technology and investment. In the process of project implementation, Bluestar (Beijing) overcame numerous production and construction challenges, thus complet ing the project as scheduled. Thereafter, photovoltaic power supply will be used whenever possible in the first place to cover daily power consumption on the plant premise, with the possible addition of municipal power supply in case of undersupply of photovoltaic power. Since the costs of photovoltaic electricity are 5% or 20% lower than that of municipal power supply, this project will generate remarkable economic and social benefits for the company. ■

On March 6, Changsha Institute’s project team successfully bid for

the expansion and renovation project as part of the 1.2 million t/a potassium fertilizer plant project undertaken by SDIC Xinjiang Luobupo Sylvite Co., Ltd, the first high-value turn-key project ever secured by the institute since its launch of a 100-day marketing campaign in the first quarter of this year.

This project will be implemented on the basis of 1.2 million t/a potassium sulfate plant. In this January, the development of packaged technology for 1.2 million t/a potassium sulfate plant in Lap Nur Salt Lake completed by the institute earned the institute the national first prize for scientific and technological advancement. Since it was put into operation in 2008, this plant has

generated both considerable economic benefits and significant social benefits, although this project still could not meet market demand. This expansion and renovation project will make full use of the potential of all plants on the 1.2 million t/a processing factory without changing the existing technological process and product plan, geared towards increasing the existing capacity to 1.5 million t/a with a moderate capital investment.

The institute set up a task force in order to secure this bid. The task force members reviewed carefully the bidding documents and conducted detailed analysis and calculation of prices before winning the bid as the best bidder with a reasonable offer and a detailed and feasible technical plan. ■

ISSUE 79 EVENTS

Zheng Xiaomang

April 2014 5

Maritime Chemical Research Institute 863 project gets acceptance

Hunan Haohua wastewater treatment plant renovation gets acceptance

Beijing Bluestar Science and

Technology helps set national standards

for coolantA 2-million-yuan wastewater biochemical treatment plant renovation project that the Hunan Haohua Co undertook got Zhuzhou municipal Environmental

Protection Bureau’s acceptance recently. The project’s focus is on biochemical treatment and improvement of the pretreatment phase. The original wastewater treatment plant went into operation in 2000. The pretreatment phase is intended to create favorable conditions for biochemical treatment through process optimization, improved processes yield, reduced pollutant discharges, and more effective pretreatment work. Thanks to the better monitoring of trials and data, this project has cut the workload and treatment costs, and made operations more stable and made discharges meet environmental standards. ■

A Chinese motor engine coolant standard, GB29743-2013, which

will take effect on May 1, 2014, is mainly the work of the Beijing Bluestar Science and Technology Co, a leading developer, producer, and distributor of engine coolant in China and a standards formulator. This standards are handled by the National Automotive Service S t a n d a r d i z a t i o n C o m m i t t e e and jointly drafted by research institutes, coolant producers and carmakers with the help of the Road Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport. In contributing to the standards, Bluestar drew up a detailed coolant list and added non-dihydric alcohol coolant products to study, to meet China’s real needs. This will give some order to China’s unruly coolant business and raise the level of China’s coolants. ■

Lishan Motor special-purpose vehicle products going to Angola

When the Lishan Motor Co shipped 48 special-purpose vehicles to the country of Angola, on March 7, it marked the beginning of its exports to Africa.

When Lishan discovered that an Angolan company had plans to import container semitrailers from an e-commerce platform, it sent an employee to visit the Angola company, which ultimately ordered the first group of trailers, 48 in all, after concluding that Lishan’s trailer products met its price, performance, usability and quality needs. Lishan has been marketing its products over an e-commence system in parallel with direct selling. It built an information exchange platform for greater brand awareness, collected the latest information on customer needs, and set up a quality assurance and quality responsibility system for end-to-end process control and improved quality controls. ■

A maritime test program for 4,500-m deep-sea operations, undertaken

by the Maritime Chemical Research Institute as part of the nation’s 863 maritime technology program, recently passed the acceptance check by a panel of experts. The main body to operate the 4,500-m-deep system

employs a solid floating material the institute developed, that can meet the requirements of various types of underwater equipment. It has been used in underwater robots and unmanned submersible vehicles. The panel which consisted of experts from the Land and Resources Ministry,

China Geological Survey, Guangzhou Bureau of Maritime Geological Survey, and Shanghai Jiaotong University personnel, agreed that the project is important for China’s 12th Five-year 863 Program for the operations of deep-sea submersible vehicle technology and equipment. ■

ISSUE 79 EVENTS

Wang Xiaojie, Yang Yue

Yuan Meihe

Du Huaibin

Zhang Li, Qiu Xuemei

April 2014 6

Safety measures for springtime

ChemChina companies are always l o o k i n g f o r w a y s t o e n s u r e

occupational safety, for example th rough inc reased t ra in ing and supervision. So, Bluestar Dongda designed a 24/7 security and fire patrol system, identifying 17 major points identified at its liquid chlorine station and continuing safety inspection of its acrylonitrile to identify and remove potential hazards and ensure trouble-free operations. Over at the Zhonghao Chenguang Institute, they gave every employee training in the safe use of electricity and electric appliances and the main equipment, such as cracking furnaces, to make sure that they are

properly informed. For the cracking furnace operations, each worker was trained in ignition and supervised by team leaders in one-on-one instruction. Meanwhile, Changyi Petrochemical got employee specialists to take an exam on instruments and regulating valves for its 1-million-t/a continuous reforming plant and on how to replace any faulty equipment immediately. At Huaihe Chemical, they increased their equipment inspection efforts to ensure steady, trouble-free operation of the equipment. ■

Photos by Zhang Xiaoli, Yang Xuelian, Liu Bin, Peng Yuning

ISSUE 79 SAFETY CULTURE

Jiangbo Xi Yuxin

Bluestar Dongda employees at major points of the liquid chlorine station.

Changyi Petrochemical personnel during an inspection of flow control valves.

Zhonghao Chenguang Institute team leaders explain operations to workers one-on-one.

Huaihe Chemical operators examining n i t r i c ac id sec t ion va l ves fo r sa fe operations.

April 2014 7

University health expert talks about female

employee health care

Workers home for employees

On March 7 ChemChina’s trade union invited He Juan, the vice-president of

China Medical University’s Basic Medicine School who often gives healthy lectures on CCTV’ s Road to Health Program and Beijing TV’s Health Preservation program, to address its female employees and explain health maintenance for the female employees of SBUs and ChemChina companies, who could take part via a videoconference system. ■

Photo by Li Zhu

Wo r k e r s h o m e s a l l a c r o s s ChemChina have always been a

place to help needy employees, or to help improve their skills, or provide other things for them, and provide a solid foundation for trade unions to help employees. If you see the workers home over at the Shenyang Paraffin Chemical Co, you’ll find various useful items such as bulletin boards, skills information, and a health counselor. But, what moves the employees here most is the trade union chairman who makes frequent visits to the workers home to test people’s blood pressure and to see whether the safety helmets are properly worn or shoelaces properly tightened, or simply reminding employees of the need for safety and precautions. Over at Guilin

ISSUE 79 EMPLOYEE WORLD

Rubber Machinery, the workers home has always been a center of economic and technical innovation, which has got a good reception from employees. Especially popular is the contest for the most supportive family, which has not only brought harmony among families of employees but also helped the company grow. At the Cangzhou Dahua Co, there are 48 workers homes, which have been playing an important role in business restructuring and have made employees more emotionally attached to the organization through reading clubs, discussions, meetings, mutual aid, and other activities and have paved the way to greater employee loyalty and productivity. At Huaxing Petrochemical, the workers home has a family album showcase that workers say is really attractive because of the family and employee snapshots and the written messages from family members posted on the wal l , wh ich g ive employees a sense of motivation. At Zhenghe Petrochemical, the employees get good care spiritually and culturally from the workers home, which allows them to fully relax and do a work-out during their spare time. ■

Photos by Song Lianqing, Li Li, Yu Ping, Yang Huijuan

Shenyang Paraffin DCC plant trade union checks the blood pressure of workers on site.

Deputy-Party Secretary at Guil in Rubber Machinery gives family photos and certificates to winning families.

Cangzhou Dahua employees find time to read and relax in a workers home.

Zhenghe Petrochemical employees engage in a game of chess at the workers home.

April 2014 8

Best wishes for ChemChina’s 10th anniversaryFo r t h e 1 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y o f

ChemChina, the business planning department asked employees to contribute photos for a special issue of the company’s newsletter, in May, and for an exhibit at the Chemical Industry Museum to commemorate the special day. All entries are expected

to convey a sense of the number “10” in any way possible, and incorporate other elements such as the company name, its employees, or company products.

ChemChina companies are coming up with many original designs, original photos, and brainstorming sessions, and there will be a special column to

celebrate the 10th anniversary in this newsletter from this issue on, with images and text on the various anniversary celebrations. It will be preceded by photos that show how ChemChina’s people embrace the 10th anniversary in their own way. So please keep an eye out for it. ■

ISSUE 79 EMPLOYEE WORLD

April 2014 9

ISSUE 79 EMPLOYEE WORLD