Corrected: INEOS Oxide declares FM on Lavera C2, C3 derivatives

15 October 2010 11:51  [Source: ICIS news]

Correction: In the ICIS news story headlined "INEOS Oxide declares FM on Lavera C2, C3 derivatives" dated 15 October 2010, please read in the third paragraph ....15,000 tonnes/year for monoethylene glycol... instead of ...150,000 tonnes/year for monoethylene glycol...Also, in the final paragraph please read ...Butyl acetate capacity is 100,000 tonnes/year.... instead of ...Butyl acetate capacity is 120,000 tonnes/year.... A corrected story follows.

LONDON (ICIS)--INEOS Oxide has declared force majeure on ethylene and propylene derivatives originating from its Lavera site in France due to reduced output caused by strike action in the region, market sources said on Friday.

The FM was implemented on ethylene oxide (EO), ethylene glycols, glycol ethers (and their esters), ethanolamines, oxo-alcohols and butyl acetates, according to company correspondence dated 14 October.

Nameplate capacity is 220,000 tonnes/year for EO, 15,000 tonnes/year for monoethylene glycol (MEG) and 50,000 tonne/year for ethanolamines produced at Lavera, according to ICIS data.

Butyl acetate capacity is 100,000 tonnes/year with feedstock produced at Lavera and manuafacturing of the end-product at Antwerp. Nameplate capacity details for oxo-alcohols were not available.

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