New plant set-ups/Capacity increases

摘要

Chemicals firm LyondellBasell is building a world scale plant on the US Gulf Coast with a capacity of around 40,000 tonnes/year of propylene oxide (PO) and around 900,000 tonnes/year of tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) and its derivatives. The preliminary timetable is to have the plant operational in 2019. The plant is expected to sell PO in the global marketplace to meet growing demand for polyurethanes. TBA and its derivatives will be sold to meet the need for high octane gasoline blending components as well as for use in manufacturing synthetic rubber and lubricant additives.