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Business News
Plant Watch
EuroChem launches phosphate-fertilizer
manufacturing complex in Brazil
March 14, 2024 - EuroChem Group (Zug,
Switzerland; www.eurochemgroup.com) opened
a new fertilizer-production facility in Serra do
Salitre, Brazil. With a total project investment of
nearly $1 billion, the new phosphate mine and
plant complex will have a production capacity
of 1 million metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of
advanced phosphate fertilizers.
Linde Engineering to supply ASU and
NWU to Australia's largest urea plant
March 13, 2024 - Linde Engineering (Pullach,
Germany; www.linde-engineering.com) will
supply an air separation unit (ASU) and a nitrogen
wash unit (NWU) for a urea plant operated by
Perdaman Industries in Karratha, Western
Australia. Upon completion, the urea plant
will be the largest in Australia. The single-train
ASU will have a capacity of 63,000 Nm3/h of
gaseous oxygen. The single-train NWU, with
a capacity of 392,000 Nm3/h of synthesis gas
to supply the downstream ammonia plant,
will be the world's largest single-train NWU.
Shin-Etsu to double production capacity
for hypromellose acetate succinate
March 8, 2024 - Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
(Tokyo; www.shinetsu.co.jp) plans to double
the manufacturing capacity of hypromellose
acetate succinate, a pharmaceutical excipient
product, at the company's Naoetsu plant in
Japan. With completion expected in 2026,
the estimated investment for the expansion
project is ¥10 billion (around $67.5 million).
Zeon completes construction of new
recycling plant for cyclo-olefin polymers
March 8, 2024 - Zeon Corp. (Tokyo; www.
zeon.co.jp) has completed construction of
a recycling plant for cyclo-olefin polymers
(COP) at its Takaoka plant in Japan. The new
plant will recycle waste resin that is generated
when processing COP into film, using it to
manufacture optical films. The plant has a
processing capacity of 6,000 m.t./yr.
Mitsubishi Chemical expands production
capacity for sugar-ester emulsifier
March 4, 2024 - Mitsubishi Chemical Group
(MCG; Tokyo; www.mcgc.com) will expand
its sugar-ester production capacity by adding
a new line with a capacity of 1,100 m.t./yr
at its Kyushu plant in Japan. Operation of
the new production line is scheduled to start
in March 2026. Sugar ester is an emulsifier
used to maintain quality in food processing
and storage applications. It is made primarily
from sucrose and fatty acids derived from
vegetable oils and fats.
Mitsui Chemicals to expand
XDI production plant
February 28, 2024 - Mitsui Chemicals,
Inc. (Tokyo; www.mitsuichemicals.com) will
increase production capacity for meta-xylylene
diisocyanate (XDI) plant at its Omuta plant in
Japan. This expansion will raise domestic XDI
production capacity by 20%. Construction
on the project is slated for completion in July
2025, with startup tentatively scheduled for
September 2025. XDI is a special isocyanate
that Mitsui Chemicals was the first in the world
to produce on a commercial scale.
AkzoNobel completes powder-coatings
capacity expansion in Vietnam
March 4, 2024 - AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam,
the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com)
announced that a major investment project has
been completed at the company's production
plant in Bac Ninh, Vietnam. Five new powdercoating
lines have been added at the site,
along with a line for producing water-based
products for the consumer electronics market.
The total investment amounts to €18.5 million.
UBE to build integrated
DMC/EMC plant in Louisiana
March 1, 2024 - UBE Corp. (Tokyo; www.ube.
com) plans to construct a dimethyl carbonate
(DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant
in Louisiana capable of producing 100,000 m.t./
yr of DMC and 40,000 m.t./yr of EMC. The total
capital investment will be approximately $500
million, with the completion of construction
scheduled for July 2026. Operations are
expected to begin in November 2026. DMC
and EMC are key components in electrolyte
solvents for lithium-ion batteries.
Arlanxeo to construct
a new HNBR plant in China
March 1, 2024 - Arlanxeo (Maastricht, the
Netherlands; www.arlanxeo.com) plans to
construct a new plant to produce hydrogenated
nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) in Changzhou,
China. With a nameplate production capacity
of 5,000 m.t./yr, the first phase of construction
will enable the production of 2,500 m.t./yr of
rubber. The plant is expected to begin operations
in the third quarter of 2025.
AkzoNobel opens new paints and
coatings plant in Pakistan
March 1, 2024 - AkzoNobel has opened a new
€26-million manufacturing plant in Faisalabad
- the company's largest investment in Pakistan
to date. The new site has facilities for making
decorative paint, wood finishes, automotive
and specialty coatings, coil coatings and
protective coatings to help meet increasing
demand across a variety of markets.
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