Praxair to build hydrogen plant

Praxair to build hydrogen plant

August 1998 Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA to house its machine shop operations and additional burning equipment. The company is investing approxima...

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August 1998

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA to house its machine shop operations and additional burning equipment. The company is investing approximately US$7.5 million to construct the facility and purchase the assets of JNT Precision Machining. The construction project includes an 80 000 sq ft facility, with sufficient property to double the size of the operation at a later date.

COAGULANTS JOINT VENTURE IN MEXICO Kemira Chenficais' Swedish subsidiary Kemira K e m i , and the Mexican company PJ Ensio, are forming a joint venture for the production of water treatment coagulants. The companies are to invest in a prodffction plant outside Mexico City, the first stage of which will have a capacity of approximately 30 000 tonnes. The production mainly includes polyaluminium chlorides and iron-based products.

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BASF TO CONSTRUCT CARBONATE FACILITY BASF is to construct a new plant for the production of ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate at Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant, which will have an annual capacity of more than 10 000 metric tons, is planned to come on-stream in the first quarter of 1999. The raw materials used in the plant, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, are also produced by BASF at Ludwigshafen.

BAYER INVESTS IN GERMAN SITE Bayer has invested DM60 million in the construction of a new and more efficient production plant at its site in Leverkusen, Germany. Dr Peter Suchanek, head of the Speciality Products Business Group, explained that the new plant will allow the company's Paper Business Unit to consolidate and expand its position as a leading manufacturer of fluorescent whitening agents for the paper industry.

NEW FLAME RETARDANTS PLANT Albermarle Corp has finalised plans to build a 50 000 metric tons-per-year plant to produce the flame retardant chemical, tetrabromobisphenol-A. Construction on the facility, sited in Magnolia, Arkansas, USA, will start in August 1998, and commercial production is anticipated to begin in the third quarter of 1999. The plant will use new continuous process technology to produce the chemical.

PIGMENT FACILITY EXPANDS Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC, wholly-owned by the energy and chemical company KerrMcGee Corp, is to expand its t i t a n i u m dioxide pig ment facility in Hamilton, Mississippi, USA. The US$57 million expansion will increase the facility's annual production capacity by 30 000 tons. The expansion is scheduled to be completed during the third quarter of 1999.

AIR PRODUCTS EXPANDS NF 3 CAPACITY

PLASTICS CAPACITY INCREASE ANNOUNCED

BAYER STRENGTHENS ABS OPERATIONS

Air Products and Chemicals Inc is to effectively double nitrogen trifluoride production at its Hometown, Pennsylvania, USA speciality gas facility. The company will" use its newly developed continuous reactor technology to increase the plant's production capacity to a p p r o x i m a t e l y 500 000 pounds-per-year. The expansion is expected to be finished by late 1999, making the Hometown facility the largest production site of its kind in the world.

Rohm and Haas, a g l o b a l supplier of modifiers and processing aids for plastics, has announced it is to increase its global capacity by 55 000 metric tons. Projects already underway include expansions at its plants in Grangemouth, Scotland; Lauterbourg, France; and Louisville, Kentucky, USA. "We are able to increase capacity in less time than our competitors," said Charles Tatum, vice president and worldwide business director for plastics additives.

Bayer is to expand capacities and introduce improved production processes in a D M 2 5 0 m i l l i o n investment in its a c r y l o n i t r i l e . b u t a d i e n e - s t y r e n e (ABS) operations. Bayer intends to increase its worldwide ABS capacity by 100 000 tons-per-year to 850 000 tons-per-year by investing at its sites in Dormagen, Germany; Tarragona, Spain; Filago, Italy; Addyston, Ohio USA; Camacari, Brazil; Map Ta Phut, Thailand; and Baroda, India.

PRAXAIR TO BUILD HYDROGEN PLANT Praxair is to build and operate a hydrogen purification plant at a PPG Industries Inc facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. When completed in early 1999, the plant will purify and compress hydrogen by-product from PPG chlor-alkali production process for pipeline delivery to Conoco and other customers.

KEMIRA PLANS PROJECT IN ORAN Kemira Chemicals is planning to construct a solid alundnium sulphate production plant in the industrial zone of Oran, Algeria. The total investment in the 30 000 ton-per-year facility is estimated to be US$4.5 million. Aluminium sulphate is essential for the water purification process in Algeria, like most African countries.

DUPONT TO GET NEW GAS PLANTS MG Industries, an affiliate of the Messer Group, is building two new on-site industrial gas production facilities for DuPont, with more also planned in the near future. The US$35 million Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA plant, with capacity in excess of 200 tons-per-day of liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid argon, is scheduled to be completely operational by the first quarter of 1999. The second plant is being constructed for the White Pigment & Minerals Products group at DuPont in Delisle, Mississippi, USA. This US$30 million air separation plant will produce over 200 tons-per-day of liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon. The plant is scheduled to be on-line in May 1999.

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