20 April 2015
DETAILS
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Fred Festa (second from left)
was joined by representatives of Joint Venture partner
Al Dahra Agriculture as well as
Grace employees and contractors in late March.
The visit marked
the commissioning of a new catalyst logistics silo terminal and
the end of Phase 1 of construction for
the first fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts manufacturing facility
in the Middle East.
Phase 2, detailed engineering, is underway,
with operations expected to begin in 2018.
The approximately $150 million facility, located in
the Kizad Industrial Zone approximately 70 km outside Abu Dhabi,
will serve refineries throughout the Middle East and
potentially other regions.
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