New projects and permanent plant shutdowns: January 31-February 7, 2011

14 February 2011 00:00  [Source: ICB]

 

NEW PROJECTS
Company	Location	Product	Capacity*	Process	Contractor	Cost	Start-up	Status
AkzoNobel	Hoskote, Bangalore, India	coil and specialty plastic coatings	18m liters/year	-	-	-	February 2011	C
BASF	Ludwigshafen, Germany	Ecoflex biodegradable plastics	(x)60,000; 74,000T	-	-	-	January 2011	C
		Ecovio biodegradable plastics	(x); 15,000T	-	-	-	-	C
Chevron	Pascagoula, Mississippi, US	base oils	25,000bbl/day	-	-	$1.4bn	end 2013	P
Chongqing Jian Feng Chemical	China	1,4-butanediol (BDO)	60,000	-	-	part of $410m	2014	P
		polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG)	46,000	-	-	part of $410m	2014	P
		acetylene	22,000	-	-	part of $410m	2014	P
		methanol	60,000	-	-	part of $410m	2014	P
		formaldehyde	135,000	-	-	part of $410m	2014	P
Comar Chemicals	Muttenz, Switzerland (Clariant site)	organometallic catalysts and nanoparticle chemicals	-	-	-	-	2011	P
Dow Chemical/Saudi Aramco	Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia	petrochemicals	-	-	-	-	-	S
GRI Group	Liege, Belgium and Manchester, UK	surfactants and other products	(x)	-	-	-	-	P
Koksan PET Packing Industry	Gaziantep, Turkey	polyethylene terephthalate (PET)	two lines totaling 432,000	-	Uhde Inventa-Fischer	-	first line: Q3 2012	E
LANXESS	Jhagadia, Gujarat, India (relocating from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India)	leather chemicals and material protection products	relocation and upgrade	-	-	$81m invested to date	end 2011	P
Loyal Group	Xinjiang, China	expandable polystyrene (EPS)	100,000	-	-	-	May 2011	U
	Panjin, Liaoning, China	EPS	150,000	-	-	-	-	P
	Zhejiang, China	EPS	(x)200,000; 380,000T	-	-	-	2012	P
Omsk regional government	Omsk, western Siberia, Russia	polypropylene (PP)	180,000	-	Tecnimont (in partnership with Titan Group)	$169m	Q3 2011	D
Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining	Yanbu, Saudi Arabia	base oils	-	-	Jacobs: front-end engineering and design (FEED)	$1bn	-	E
Saudi Kayan Petrochemical/Saudi Acrylic Acid Co./Saudi Aramco/Dow Chemical	Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia	n-butanol	330,000	-	-	$480m	H2 2014	P
Segetis	US upper midwest	solvent and non-phthalate plasticizer products	(x)	-	-	-	mid 2011	P
Sibur-Khimprom	Perm, Urals, Russia	EPS	50,000	-	-	-	2012	U
Zachem	Bydgoszcz, Poland	toluene di-isocyanate (TDI)	(x)15,000; 90,000T	-	-	$11.3m	2013	P

PERMANENT PLANT SHUTDOWNS
Company	Location	Product	Capacity	Process	Contractor	Cost	Shutdown
Dow Chemical	Freeport, Texas, US	vinyl chloride (monomer) (VCM)	-	-	-	-	-

Notes: *Capacity: figures given in tonnes/year; tonnes/day are converted by multiplying by 330. (x) = expansion; T = total capacity including expansion.

Start-up: Dates given are for planned start-up. H1 = 1st half year; H2 = 2nd half year; Q1 = 1st quarter; Q2 = 2nd quarter; Q3 = 3rd quarter; Q4 = 4th quarter.

Status: S = study; P = planned; A = approval; E = engineering; U = under construction; C = completed; D = delayed.

By: Anna Jagger
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