Bayer MaterialScience to make big cost savings

22 June 2007 10:08  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--Germany’s Bayer MaterialScience expects to achieve a 40-60% reduction in energy consumption and 20% lower investment costs through the use of new technology, a senior company official said on Friday. 

 

The efficiencies would come due to the utilisation of new gas phase phosgenation technology for the production of toluene di-isocyanate (TDI), said Klaus Jaeger, head of the company’s polyurethane production and isocyanates technology in the Asia-Pacific, at the 11th Chlor-Alkali Conference here.

 

“All the TDI plants the company builds from now on will use the new process technology,” he said.

 

Bayer’s 300,000/tonne a year TDI plant in Caojing, near Shanghai, which will start up in 2010, would use this technology, he added.

 

“The new technology will not only provide a higher TDI yield, but also enhance plant safety and climate protection by reducing phosgene hold-up at low pressure,” he said.

 

Since 2004, the company had been evaluating the production of TDI using this process at its 30,000 tonne/year pilot plant in Dormagen, Germany, he said.

 

The two-day conference, organised by ICIS and consultants Tecnon OrbiChem, ends today.

 

By: Prema Viswanathan
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