China joint ventures

Months later, Mr. Yoon would invite Houston and Cathy along with Mark and his wife to China to formally sign the Joint venture agreement. Phillips was getting divorced and Houston adamantly refused to attend with his wife or by himself, stating he had an entertainment "gig" that he could not cancel. Phillips and his soon to be ex-wife attended, but right before their return to the U.S., a man with the Chinese Ministry of Defense showed him an extraordinary file that would change his life. 

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Industries [3], Six other DCC units are in operation with a total operating experience of more than 50 years. Total licensed capacity is about 20 MMTA. Two major grassroots units currently under construction were licensed to the joint venture of Saudi Aramco Sumitomo, and to JSC Taneco, Nizhnekamsk, to produce polymer grade propylene as shown in Table 8.2. In addition, RIPP Sinopec recently licensed three DCC units in China and Shaw licensed two DCC units in India. 

A joint venture (J V) allows a combination of tangible and intangible assets of the partners in a way to optimize the combined offering. JVs are popular in the chemical industry, particularly between Western and Chinese companies in China. It has to be pointed out, however, that the of JV failure rate is quite high. This is particularly the case for horizontal JVs, where all activities, such as R D, production, and M S, are shared. The main reasons are culture clashes that prevent the expected synergies and conflicts of interests with other activities of the partners. 

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The Chinese chemical market is attracting huge foreign direct investments. Between 1993 and 2003, investment projects amounted to around EUR 20 billion of contractual FDI, with Bayer, BASF, Shell, and BP the four biggest investors. Over the last ten years, five percent of foreign direct investment was into the chemicals sector. Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to enter via joint ventures partially driven by the need for feedstock access, but wholly foreign-owned enterprises will become more common following China s membership of the WTO. 

CNOOC-SHELL, the joint venture between Shell and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, differentiates its distribution channels by products and custo-... 

In the late 1950s, the volume of reported remittances dropped off sharply. Instead of paying remittances directly to relatives, expatriate Chinese invested heavily in both mainland China and in foreign joint ventures with the Peking government. The flow of remittances was capitalized in joint ventures with Peking, and relatives back home received dividends from these investments. 

Mitsubishi Rayon Reaches Agreement on Joint Venture to Manufacture and Sell Petrochemical Products in China, Chemchannels.com, Tokyo, Japan, December 19, 2002. (www.chemchannels.com)... 

It is backed by a joint venture between Sinopec, Fujian Province, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco. Another new plant that was completed in 2009 is the Dushanzi Integrated Refinery and Petrochemicals Complex in the Xinjiang region of China. Its cost was 4 billion and it is owned by PetroChina and Dushanzi Petrochemical Corp. 

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