carbon energy, as well as broader issues such as the transformation of Asian economies, the effect the financial crisis has had on the global business environment and the potential for intra-Emerging-Market cooperation”, which will have a strong and lasting impact right throughout the region. "The year 2009 marked a fruitful year for SABIC globally, and especially in China. The SINOPEC SABIC Tianjin Petrochemical Company was inaugurated in November 2009 and pre-production operations of the new 3.2 million-ton petrochemical complex, including a million-ton ethylene cracker and eight additional downstream units, commenced in January 2010," said Samir A. Al-Abdrabbuh, Vice President, SABIC's Corporate Communications in a latest press release issued by the Corporation.