MOSCOW (MRC) -- Total Cray Valley has introduced several new developments in functional additive technology, as per GV.
This includes the debut of a new multifunctional resin, SMA 1550, which is, according to the company, a more universal dispersant of organic and inorganic pigments compared to other dispersants. Other new additive products that were introduced are:
- styrene maleic anhydride (SMA resins): matting agents for powder coatings;
- hydroxy terminated polybutadiene-based PUDs;
- additives that promote adhesion to low energy surfaces, like glass and polymers;
- cleartack W resins: film formers for alkyd paints.
These resins are said to provide benefits to coatings formulators, such as adhesion to a wide variety of substrates, resistance to aqueous acids and bases, low temperature flexibility, and high elongation with good elastic recovery.
As MRC wrote previously, Total's proposed new ethane cracker near its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, is being designed to have a capacity of 1 million tpy, the company said in a permit application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in April 2015. Construction on the cracker could start in June 2016, the company said, with operations starting three years later. The project would include seven ethane-cracking heaters.
Total S.A. is a French multinational oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The company's petrochemical products cover two main groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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