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- Completes a second plant in China capable of treating high concentration wastewater without pre-treatment by customers

Sembcorp has successfully expanded its pioneering high concentration industrial wastewater treatment business in China, with the completion of a second plant in the country.  The 12,500 cubic metres per day plant in Nanjing will be capable of treating industrial wastewater, including industrial wastewater with a high concentration of up to 4,000 milligrammes per litre chemical oxygen demand.

This plant will be Sembcorp’s second in China to treat third party customers’ high concentration industrial wastewater directly from source without customers having to invest in pre-treatment facilities.  Government regulations usually require industrial companies to pre-treat their wastewater to a chemical oxygen demand of not more than 500 milligrammes per litre, before discharging the wastewater for treatment. The decision to permit industrial companies to discharge their wastewater directly to a facility, without needing the companies to pre-treat the wastewater signifies a new initiative by the government for advanced wastewater management in China.

Sembcorp’s earlier 15,000 cubic metres per day plant in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Port Zone, was the first in China where industrial customers were allowed to do away with this pre-treatment step. This saved customers the resources required to build and operate their own pre-treatment facilities, and enabled them to concentrate on their core business. Opened in May 2009, the Zhangjiagang project leveraged on Sembcorp’s successful track record of effectively treating industrial wastewater in Singapore’s Jurong Island petrochemical cluster, and was selected as a government-to-government showcase project for progressive integrated water management. With the success of the Zhangjiagang plant, Sembcorp is now taking this high concentration wastewater treatment model to the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park (NCIP).

The NCIP is the second chemical industrial park in China to be accorded State-level Chemical Hub status. Costing RMB 92.3 million (S$19.1 million), this new plant will meet the increasing customer demand for effective industrial wastewater treatment in the NCIP, where Sembcorp has existing water and wastewater treatment operations serving over 40 multinational companies and local enterprises. With this new plant, Sembcorp’s combined water and wastewater treatment capacity in operation and under development in China will total over 400,000 cubic metres per day.

Mr Tang Kin Fei, Group President and CEO of Sembcorp Industries said, “Sembcorp is very happy to celebrate this significant milestone for our water business in China. As a pioneer in the effective treatment of high concentration industrial wastewater in Singapore and China, we are pleased to now bring our effective solutions to customers in Nanjing.  These solutions save customers the need to invest in building and operating pre-treatment facilities for their wastewater, and at the same time, also support local authorities in their goal of environmental protection.”

The completion of the plant was celebrated in a ceremony today, graced Mr Mou Xiaoyu, Nanjing City Chief Secretary, Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park Vice Director, Mr Lu Yi, Sembcorp Industries Chairman Mr Peter Seah as well as members of Sembcorp Industries’ board.

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ABOUT SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES

Sembcorp Industries is a leading energy, water and marine group. With facilities with over 3,800 megawatts of gross power capacity and over 4 million cubic metres of water per day in operation and under development, Sembcorp is a trusted provider of essential energy and water solutions to customers in Singapore, China, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the UAE and Oman. In addition, it is a world leader in marine & offshore engineering, as well as an established provider of environmental services and developer of integrated townships and industrial parks in the region.

Sembcorp Industries has total assets of over S$9 billion and employs more than 6,900 employees. Listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange, it is a component stock of the Straits Times Index and several MSCI indices.

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ABOUT NANJING CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL PARK

Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park (NCIP) is located in the north of the Nanjing Municipality (capital of Jiangsu Province), on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. The total planned area of NCIP is 45 square kilometres, of which Yangtze Petrochemical Co and Yangtze-BASF Integrated Petrochemical Project occupy 10 square kilometres. NCIP was named a State-level Chemical Hub in January 2003, making it the second chemical industrial park in China to be accorded this status. Development in the NCIP focuses on petrochemical and natural gas derivatives, basic organic chemical feedstock, fine chemicals, polymers, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, and new chemical materials.