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Plant Watch
Covestro invests in debottlenecking and
chlorine supply at Tarragona site
December 11, 2017 - Covestro AG (Leverkusen,
Germany; www.covestro.com) will invest around
€200 million in improvement projects at its
production site in Tarragona, Spain, including
construction of an onsite chlorine-production
plant and a debottlenecking project to increase
methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI)
production by 50,000 metric tons per year
(m.t./yr) to 220,000 m.t./yr. The chlorine
plant is planned to start up in 2020, and the
debottlenecking will occur through 2022.
NOVA announces plans for cracker
expansion and new PE plant in Sarnia
December 8, 2017 - NOVA Chemicals Corp.
(Calgary, Alta., Canada; www.novachem.com)
announced two significant capital-investment
projects in the Sarnia-Lambton region of Ontario,
Canada. The expansion of NOVA Chemicals'
Corunna cracker by approximately 50% will
provide ethylene for a new polyethylene (PE)
production facility. The new plant is designed
to increase NOVA Chemicals' PE production
capacity by approximately 450,000 m.t./yr. Site
preparations are currently underway for both
projects, with startup targeted for late 2021.
Clariant selected by Xuzhou HaiDing
for new PDH unit in China
December 8, 2017 - Clariant AG (Munich,
Germany; www.clariant.com) will develop a
custom-built Catofin catalyst and propane
dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in cooperation
with CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.
com) for Xuzhou HaiDing Chemical Technology
Co. The project includes the license and
engineering design of the unit, which is to be
built in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The
Xuzhou HaiDing plant is designed to produce
600,000 m.t./yr of propylene (PP).
BP to build its third
lubricants plant in China
December 7, 2017 - BP plc (London; www.
bp.com) plans to build a new lubricantsblending
plant in China. The new plant will be
BP's third lubricants-blending plant in China,
and with an expected investment of around
$230 million, will also represent BP's single
largest blending-plant investment worldwide.
The new plant, expected to start operation
before the end of 2021, will have a production
capacity of 200,000 m.t./yr.
Oxea to begin DOTP
production in Europe
December 5, 2017 - Oxea GmbH (Monheim
am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.
com) entered into a cooperation with a German
partner to
produce dioctyl terephthalate
(DOTP), a non-ortho-phthalate plasticizer. By
2019, Oxea will produce 60,000 m.t./yr of DOTP.
For this project, Oxea's cooperation partner will
construct a modular DOTP production unit at its
manufacturing site in Germany.
thyssenkrupp to build two major
polymer plants for SASA in Turkey
November 30, 2017 - thyssenkrupp Industrial
Solutions' (Essen Germany; www.thyssenkruppindustrial-solutions.com)
subsidiary Uhde
Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build
two new world-scale polymer plants for SASA
Polyester Sanayi A.S. in Adana, Turkey. One
plant is planned to produce 380,000 m.t./yr
of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for lowviscosity
applications. The second plant
will use proprietary technology to produce
216,000 m.t./yr of resin for the production
of PET bottles.
W.R. Grace awarded Unipol PP
contracts in Kuwait and China
November 28, 2017 - W.R. Grace & Co.
(Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) will license
its Unipol PP process to Kuwait Integrated
Petroleum Industries Co. (KIPIC) for the integrated
petrochemical complex at its Al-Zour petroleum
refinery. Expected to open in 2023, the facility
is designed to produce 940,000 m.t./yr of
polypropylene. W.R. Grace also announced
two Unipol PP licenses in China - one from
Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. and
one from Oriental Energy Co. in Ningbo.
Lotte Versalis Elastomers opens new
production plant in South Korea
November 27, 2017 - Lotte Versalis Elastomers,
a 50-50 joint venture (JV) between Eni S.p.A.
(Rome, Italy; www.eni.com) and Lotte Chemical
(Seoul, South Korea; www.lottechem.com),
opened a new integrated industrial complex
for the production of elastomers in Yeosu,
South Korea. The industrial complex has a
nameplate capacity of 200,000 m.t./yr of
elastomers, including ethylene-propylene
diene monomer (EPDM) and solution-styrene
butadiene rubber (s-SBR).
Mergers & Acquisitions
Atlas Copco acquires mining equipment
businesses in the U.S. and South Africa
December 4, 2017 - Atlas Copco AB (Stockholm,
Sweden; www.atlascopco.com) intends to
acquire Cate Drilling Solutions LLC, a distributor
of mining equipment, and Renegade Drilling
Supplies Proprietary Ltd., a manufacturer
of mining equipment and accessories. The
acquisition of Utah-based Cate Drilling Solutions
is expected to close in early 2018. Based
in Johannesburg, South Africa, Renegade
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