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Plant Watch
Covestro breaks ground in
Antwerp for new aniline plant
October 12, 2022 - Covestro AG (Leverkusen,
Germany; www.covestro.com) broke ground
in Antwerp, Belgium for a new world-scale
production facility for the manufacture of aniline.
Covestro is investing more than €300 million in
the plant, which is scheduled to be operational
in early 2025.
SGP BioEnergy adds green-hydrogen
production to Panama biorefinery project
October 12, 2022 -SGP BioEnergy Holdings
LLC (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.sgpbioenergy.
com) plans to add green-hydrogen production
to its biofuels project in Panama, the largestplanned
advanced biorefinery in the world.
Facility construction is on schedule for Phase
1 production to begin in 2025, following the
commencement of physical construction in
2023. Once fully operational, the biorefinery will
produce 180,000 barrels per day of biofuels
and 405,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)
of green hydrogen.
OMV Petrom to build new aromatics
unit at Petrobrazi Refinery
October 12, 2022 - OMV Petrom S.A.
(Bucharest, Romania) is investing approximately
€130 million over the next three years to build
a new production unit for aromatic products
at the Petrobrazi Refinery in Romania. The
processing capacity of the new unit is about
1,500 m.t./d. The new unit will be put into
operation in 2026.
BASF to construct new
neopentyl glycol plant in China
October 11, 2022 - BASF SE (Ludwigshafen,
Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a new
world-scale neopentyl glycol (NPG) plant with
a production capacity of 80,000 m.t./yr at its
new Zhanjiang Verbund site in China. With the
new NPG plant expected to come onstream
in late 2025, BASF's global NPG capacity will
be boosted from 255,000 m.t./yr to 335,000
m.t./yr. Currently, BASF has NPG production
facilities in Ludwigshafen, Germany; Freeport,
Tex.; and Nanjing and Jilin, China.
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Toray to increase production capacity
for polyester films at Gifu Plant
October 11, 2022 - Toray Industries, Inc.
(Tokyo; www.toray.com) will boost production
capacity by 60% for the Lumirror brand of
biaxially oriented polyester-release films
used in the manufacture of multilayer ceramic
capacitors. The company will invest ¥8 billion
(around $54 million) in this upgrade at the Gifu
Plant in Japan. The upgraded capacities will
go online in 2025.
Cepsa begins production of advanced
biofuels at La Rábida Energy Park
October 7, 2022 - Cepsa Quimica (Madrid,
Spain; chemicals.cepsa.com) has started to
produce advanced biofuels with used cooking
oils as feedstock at its La Rábida Energy Park,
located in Huelva, Spain. Cepsa expects its
total biofuels production capacity in Spain and
Portugal to reach 2.5 million m.t./yr by 2030.
Air Products investing $500-million in a
new green-hydrogen facility in New York
October 7, 2022 -Air Products (Lehigh Valley,
Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced plans
to invest approximately $500 million to build,
own and operate a 35-m.t./d facility to produce
green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in
Massena, N.Y., as well as liquid-hydrogen
distribution and dispensing operations. The
commercial operation of this facility is targeted
to begin in 2026 or 2027.
Honeywell opens plant in Baton Rouge to
produce new low-GWP propellant
October 6, 2022 - Honeywell International,
Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com)
opened a plant in Baton Rouge, La., which is
the company's first large-scale manufacturing
site for Solstice Air (HFO-1234ze(E) cGMP),
a near-zero global-warming-potential (GWP)
medical propellant. Honeywell is partnering
with AstraZeneca plc (Cambridge, U.K.; www.
astrazeneca.com) to incorporate Solstice Air
technology into inhaled respiratory medicines.
Orlen Unipetrol commissions
dicyclopentadiene production unit
October 6, 2022 - The Orlen Unipetrol Group
(Prague, Czech Republic; www.orlenunipetrol.
cz) has commissioned a new production
unit for dicyclopentadiene (DCPD), which
will produce up to 26,000 m.t./yr of DCPD,
making it one of the largest producers in
Europe. The investment in the construction
of the new unit totaled CZK831 million (around
$33 million). DCPD, a liquid hydrocarbon, has
a broad range of applications in the automotive
industry, construction, electrical, medicine and
pharmaceutical sectors.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Entegris to sell its Pipeline and
Industrial Materials business to Infineum
October 12, 2022 - The Pipeline and Industrial
Materials business (PIM) of Entegris, Inc. (Billerica,
Mass.; www.entegris.com) will be acquired
by Infineum, a joint venture (JV) between Shell
and ExxonMobil. Entegris' PIM business is part
of the company's Specialty Chemicals and
Engineered Materials division and includes
sealant products and drag-reducing agents
(DRAs) for pipeline operations.
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