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Baystar JV starts up $1.4bn US PE plant
Baystar, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Borealis, has started up its $1.4bn 625,000 tonnes/ yr Bay 3 polyethylene (PE) unit, more than doubling current production capacity at the site in Bayport, Texas. The Bay 3 unit completes the JV’s
integrated petrochemicals venture, which also includes the site’s two legacy PE lines plus an ethane cracker at the TotalEnergies Platform in Port Arthur, Texas. It increases the Baystar site’s total
production to more than one million tonnes per year and is the first PE unit to use the Borealis Borstar 3G
technology in North America. “The start-up of the new PE unit is the second milestone of this joint venture aimed at establishing Baystar as a fully integrated US petrochemi- cal player,” said Bernard Pinatel, President, Refining & Chemicals, TotalEnergies. Borealis CEO, Thomas Gangl said: “Expanding and deepening our footprint through Baystar enables us to better serve customers and partners by offering improved access to Borstar-based products produced right here in North America.” �
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Eigen integrates Ampacet colour control technology
Eigen Innovations has partnered with Ampacet to integrate its Spectro 4.0 colour monitoring and management solution into machine vision solu- tions, allowing colour metrics captured by a sensor to be correlated with digital part records during the production process for continual quality assessment. Eigen’s machine vision solutions
feature camera sensors and edge processors plus machine and network connectivity to capture and
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generate digital records with critical quality and process data on every part produced. “We created Spectro4.0 to allow
plastic processors to accurately measure colour during production in real-time to reduce scrap and lost production due to poor colour quality,” says Douglas Brownfield, Commercial Director of LIAD Smart at Ampacet. �
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