AKZONOBEL DOUBLES DME PRODUCTION

摘要

AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals is to increase Dimethyl ether (DME) production capacity at its Rotterdam/Europoort plant in the Netherlands to 45,000 tons per year. DME is used as an environmentally friendly propellant for aerosols and AkzoNobel's DME Rotterdam/Europoort plant currendy produces 20,000 tons a year. But the recently announced expansion, which will come into effect in Q4 2012 and is based on existing technology, will more than double this.