MOSCOW (MRC) -- A fire occurred at Ascend Material's plant in Cantonment early Tuesday morning, but was quickly extinguished, as per Pensacola News Journal.
Escambia County Fire Rescue was dispatched to the plant for a mutual aid call just after 4 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The company tweeted at 6:36 a.m. that a fire had occurred at the site.
"A fire at our Cantonment, FL site occurred this morning," Ascend's tweet said. "The fire was put out immediately and there were no injuries."
Alison Jahn, a spokeswoman for Ascend, told the News Journal there was no risk to the public at any time, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Jahn said she would release more details once they become available.
Escambia County firefighters stayed on scene until 5:35 a.m., according to county spokeswoman Kaycee Lagarde.
As MRC wrote previously, in May 2016, Ascend Performance Materials said it had put plans to build a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant on hold because of market conditions. The two-train project at Chocolate Bayou, TX, with a combined capacity of more than 1 million m.t./year of propylene, was expected to become the largest such facility in the United States and cost an estimated USD1.2 billion. It has already been delayed once from the original onstream date of 2016 to mid-2019. Ascend is expected to use the UOP Oleflex PDH technology.
Ascend Performance Materials is a global leader in the production of Nylon 6,6.
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