The Rasheed family group of companies in Egypt has rebranded its business under the name of Rasheed Performance Minerals (RPMinerals), supplying speciality mineral and chemical products to serve a range of markets including oilfield, civil engineering, metal casting, and papermaking.
Among the recent changes is a plant expansion at wholly owned subsidiary IDIC Specialty Drilling Chemicals, at its facility in the Amreya Free Trade Zone, near Alexandria.
IDIC manufactures organophyllic bentonite and organophyllic lignite products used in oil-based drilling fluids under the trade names, BENTOIL and LIGNOIL, respectively.
The company has just completed a multi-million dollar expansion of its manufacturing facilities to a “practical capacity” of 25,000 tpa.
IDIC also mills and packages Gilsonite,...