NEWS Ascend/BASF invest in PA66
Ascend Performance Materials and BASF both announced investments to increase global capacity for production of the PA66 feedstock hexamethylenediamine (HMD) at the beginning of this year. Ascend said it had committed investment to build a previously announced new HMD and specialty chemicals plant at Lianyungang in China. Construction will start later this year with production expected to begin in the second half of 2023. According to Ascend, the plant will be its first chemical production operation and its largest investment to
Reagens grows in stabilisers
Reagens USA is to buy the Evans Chemetics’ Thioester business, which includes the Evanstab family of secondary antioxidants and stabilisers. As part of the deal the
parties have agreed a transition period, during which Evans will supply Reagens with thioesters from its manufacturing plant at Waterloo in New York state. Over that period, Reagens said it will invest in additional production capabilities for the acquired products at its site in Pasadena, Texas. As well as thioesters,
Reagens USA produces tin and calcium-zinc stabilisers, as well as a range of lubricants. Its Italian parent also produces thioesters at its headquarters facility in Italy. �
www.reagens-group.com
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date outside of the US. “Our growth is driven by increasing
market demand and growing collaboration with our customers globally,” said Phil McDivitt, Ascend’s President and CEO. “The materials we produce are helping drive technological transformations across markets, from e-mobility to automation. Our new HMD plant positions us to continue supporting these transformations well into the future.” Meanwhile, BASF announced it is to build a new 260,000 tonne/yr HMD plant at its Chalampé facility in France. Production is expected to start in 2024.
The company also said it is to
expand production capacity for PA66 polymer at its site at Freiburg in Germany during this year. The investments expand the PA66 business that BASF acquired from Solvay in 2020. “With this new HMD plant in Chalampé and the expansion of the polymerisation in Freiburg, BASF ensures that customers can be reliably supplied with HMD and PA66 while also addressing increasing demand in the market,” said Dr Ramkumar Dhruva, President of BASF’s Monomers division. �
www.ascendmaterials.com �
www.basf.com
Clariant to make FRs in China
Clariant is to invest around CHF60m (€58m) to build a first Chinese production facility for its Exolit OP range of aluminium diethyl- phosphinate (DEPAL) flame retardants. The plant will be located at Daya Bay in Guangdong province and will open in 2023. The company said
establishing local capacity for its Exolit OP products will enhance speed of delivery in China and other Asian markets, where there is growing demand for the flame retardant additives particularly from the
Clariant is to build its first Exolit OP FR capacity in China
electrical and electronic equipment industries. Clariant said the move follows several other investments in China. It
expects the country’s share of its global sales to grow from 10% in 2020 to around 14% by 2025. �
www.clariant.com
Ampacet adds capacity in Europe
Masterbatch producer Ampacet is doubling capacity at its plant at Dudelange in Luxembourg with the addition of new colour production lines. The company said the investment will reduce lead times and offer additional
product delivery flexibility. “This colour investment is part of the overall strategy to better respond to customers’ needs with respect to both quality and service,” said Ampacet Europe Managing Director Marcello Bergamo.
The move follows
previous expansions in 2017 and 2019 at the Dudelange site, which houses Ampacet’s European headquarters, Colour Centre of Excellence, and European R&D lab. �
www.ampacet.com
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