World-scale ADN plant in China planned / Asian demand exceeding availability

摘要

PA 6.6 giant Invista (Wichita, Kansas / USA; www.invista. com) is reviving plans to build a world-scale plant for ADN in China. The company said it has begun engineering work for a facility that would produce "at minimum" 300,000 t/y of the key polyamide feedstock. Investment costs of over USD 1 bn are projected, with construction due to begin in 2020 and production in 2023. The US company, world's largest producer of PA 6.6, owns the "nylon" trademark and a number of production facilities taken over from DuPont (Wilmington, Delaware / USA; www.dupont.com), inventor of the PA grade. In the past five years, Invista has invested more than USD 600m in China to support the PA 6.6 market.