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JV increases hydrogen peroxide capacity in Korea
MARKET PROSPECTS Nitric acid is one of the feed stocks for adipic acid, which is used in the manufacture of nylon, polyurethane, and other products. The new facility will be built at Invista’s Sakra site adjacent to their existing adipic acid plant, and this will improve the efficiency of the unit. The construction is expected to complete by mid 2009.
JV increases hydrogen peroxide capacity in Korea
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eadwaters Inc and Evonik Industries AG (formerly Degussa AG) have substantially increased production capacity for hydrogen peroxide at the facility operated by their joint venture in Ulsan, Korea. HeadwatersEvonik acquired this facility from the Finnish company Kemira Oyi, Helsinki, in 2006. Using proprietary technology from Evonik, it has more than doubled capacity from the original level of 34 000 metric tons pa. within a year. The hydrogen peroxide produced in Ulsan will be supplied to customers in Korea and to the adjacent facility operated by the Seoul-based company SKC.
awarded a contract to provide proprietary technology, engineering and procurement services for two 200 000 metric tons per annum acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plants for Tianjin Dagu Chemical Industry Co Ltd. The plants will be located in Tianjin Industrial Park, Lingang Industry Area, in the city of Tianjin. Shaw’s agreement with SABIC Innovative Plastics Technologies Inc (formally GE Plastics Global Technology, LLP) will enable the two Tianjin Dagu plants to utilize the licensed styrenic emulsion ABS technology.
PETROCHEMICALS
DSM invests in new resins plant in Germany
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oyal DSM NV will invest nearly 15 million in the construction of a new plant for the production of wet polyesters and other specialty resins in Meppen, Germany. The new production line will be built at the existing site of DSM NeoResins+ in Meppen. The plant will be completed in the first half of 2009 and will allow for further expansions in the future.
BASF expands WATER TREATMENT plasticizers business in Romanian cities to Asia Pacific get water treatment ASF has outlined several key iniupgrade
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tiatives for its Asia Pacific plasticizers business. To meet growing demand for solvents and plasticizers the company plans to expand the annual production capacity of its oxo-C4 plant in Nanjing, China, by 55 000 metric tons to 305 000 metric tons by the fourth quarter of 2008. This move will ensure reliable supplies of the precursor alcohols n-butanol and 2ethylhexanol. In Asia, and in China especially, demand for plasticizers is expected to grow by 4–5% per year through to 2015.
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he western Romanian cities Deva and Hunedoara are located on the left side of the River Mures. Aqua Engineering GmbH, Mondsee, a group company of Christ Water Technology AG, has been selected to refurbish the water treatment plant in Orlea that delivers water to Deva and to construct a new water treatment plant with two purification lines in the city of Hunedoara. The value of these orders is 8.2 million and this will be financed by EU funds.
Shaw wins contract for Costain awarded Chinese ABS plants Thames Water contract
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he Shaw Group Inc’s Energy & Chemicals Group has been
Pump Industry Analyst
Utilities Ltd under the Lot 1 process agreement. The project, worth approximately £10 million, is to address deteriorating raw water quality supplied to Farmoor WTW and to increase pumping capacity of water into supply. Waste water for both the Farmoor and Swinford sites is processed at a combined sludge plant at Farmoor which is to be upgraded to deal with full waste flows. Work on the project is due to start on site during February 2008 with substantial completion and TOC planned for March 2009.
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ostain has won a design and construct project by Thames Water
Global petrochemicals joint venture planned
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he Dow Chemical Co and Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Co (PIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC), are to form a 50/50 joint venture global petrochemicals company. The joint venture, to be headquartered in the US, will manufacture and market polyethylene, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines, polypropylene, and polycarbonate. The JV is expected to have revenues of more than US$11 billion and employ more than 5000 people worldwide.
Solvay Indupa to produce bioethanolbased vinyl
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olvay is undertaking a US$135 million investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant in Santo Andre, Brazil. This second stage of expansion, following the plan announced in August 2006, comprises the creation of an integrated plant to produce ethylene with ethanol originating from sugar cane. Santo Andre would be the first industrial project in the Americas implementing renewable resources for the production of PVC. Solvay Indupa plans to complete the expansion by 2010. Solvay Indupa is also studying with Argentinean energy group Albanesi SA the construction of a 165 MW combined cycle electrical power plant on Solvay Indupa’s site in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
February 2008
JV increases hydrogen peroxide capacity in Korea
H
eadwaters Inc and Evonik Industries AG (formerly Degussa AG) have substantially increased production capacity for hydrogen peroxide at the facility operated by their joint venture in Ulsan, Korea. HeadwatersEvonik acquired this facility from the Finnish company Kemira Oyi, Helsinki, in 2006. Using proprietary technology from Evonik, it has more than doubled capacity from the original level of 34 000 metric tons pa. within a year. The hydrogen peroxide produced in Ulsan will be supplied to customers in Korea and to the adjacent facility operated by the Seoul-based company SKC.
awarded a contract to provide proprietary technology, engineering and procurement services for two 200 000 metric tons per annum acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plants for Tianjin Dagu Chemical Industry Co Ltd. The plants will be located in Tianjin Industrial Park, Lingang Industry Area, in the city of Tianjin. Shaw’s agreement with SABIC Innovative Plastics Technologies Inc (formally GE Plastics Global Technology, LLP) will enable the two Tianjin Dagu plants to utilize the licensed styrenic emulsion ABS technology.
PETROCHEMICALS
DSM invests in new resins plant in Germany
R
oyal DSM NV will invest nearly 15 million in the construction of a new plant for the production of wet polyesters and other specialty resins in Meppen, Germany. The new production line will be built at the existing site of DSM NeoResins+ in Meppen. The plant will be completed in the first half of 2009 and will allow for further expansions in the future.
BASF expands WATER TREATMENT plasticizers business in Romanian cities to Asia Pacific get water treatment ASF has outlined several key iniupgrade
B
tiatives for its Asia Pacific plasticizers business. To meet growing demand for solvents and plasticizers the company plans to expand the annual production capacity of its oxo-C4 plant in Nanjing, China, by 55 000 metric tons to 305 000 metric tons by the fourth quarter of 2008. This move will ensure reliable supplies of the precursor alcohols n-butanol and 2ethylhexanol. In Asia, and in China especially, demand for plasticizers is expected to grow by 4–5% per year through to 2015.
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he western Romanian cities Deva and Hunedoara are located on the left side of the River Mures. Aqua Engineering GmbH, Mondsee, a group company of Christ Water Technology AG, has been selected to refurbish the water treatment plant in Orlea that delivers water to Deva and to construct a new water treatment plant with two purification lines in the city of Hunedoara. The value of these orders is 8.2 million and this will be financed by EU funds.
Shaw wins contract for Costain awarded Chinese ABS plants Thames Water contract
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he Shaw Group Inc’s Energy & Chemicals Group has been
Pump Industry Analyst
Utilities Ltd under the Lot 1 process agreement. The project, worth approximately £10 million, is to address deteriorating raw water quality supplied to Farmoor WTW and to increase pumping capacity of water into supply. Waste water for both the Farmoor and Swinford sites is processed at a combined sludge plant at Farmoor which is to be upgraded to deal with full waste flows. Work on the project is due to start on site during February 2008 with substantial completion and TOC planned for March 2009.
C
ostain has won a design and construct project by Thames Water
Global petrochemicals joint venture planned
T
he Dow Chemical Co and Kuwait’s Petrochemical Industries Co (PIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC), are to form a 50/50 joint venture global petrochemicals company. The joint venture, to be headquartered in the US, will manufacture and market polyethylene, ethyleneamines, ethanolamines, polypropylene, and polycarbonate. The JV is expected to have revenues of more than US$11 billion and employ more than 5000 people worldwide.
Solvay Indupa to produce bioethanolbased vinyl
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olvay is undertaking a US$135 million investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant in Santo Andre, Brazil. This second stage of expansion, following the plan announced in August 2006, comprises the creation of an integrated plant to produce ethylene with ethanol originating from sugar cane. Santo Andre would be the first industrial project in the Americas implementing renewable resources for the production of PVC. Solvay Indupa plans to complete the expansion by 2010. Solvay Indupa is also studying with Argentinean energy group Albanesi SA the construction of a 165 MW combined cycle electrical power plant on Solvay Indupa’s site in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
February 2008