BP builds VAM, ethyl acetate plants at Hull
09 November 1998 11:28 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (CNI)--BP Chemicals is to build a 250 000 tonne/year vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant and a 220 000 tonne/year ethyl acetate plant at its Hull site in England, a BP spokeswoman told CNI Monday.
The VAM plant is scheduled for completion by the end of 2000 and the ethyl acetate plant is due for completion in 2001. Investment details were not immediately available.
BP will use its new proprietary VAM technology, which it claims can more than double the capacity of a single reactor compared with conventional technology. The VAM investment will coincide with the end of its toll manufacturing agreement with Italy's Enichem for VAM production at Porto Marghera when the existing contract expires in 2000. In addition, BP will close its 115 000 tonne/year VAM plant at Baglan Bay, South Wales when the company is in a position to assure uninterrupted supply to customers, the spokeswoman revealed.
The ethyl acetate plant will be based on BP's proprietary 'direct method' for making ethyl acetate from ethylene and acetic acid, and this will be the first time the technology is used commercially. The new plant will replace output at Hull from BP's current ethyl acetate process, which relies on the esterification of ethanol with acetic acid, and the ethyl acetate currently toll manufactured for BP by Enichem.
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