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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Invista says the USD250
million retrofit of its Victoria, Texas, adiponitrile (ADN) unit remains on
schedule, with completion slated for early 2021, said Chemweek.
"We
anticipate all pre-turnaround construction will be completed later this year,
and the final tie-ins are to be installed during a regularly scheduled
maintenance outage in early 2021 with additional ADN coming online at that
time," says a statement from the company.
The retrofit, announced in
2017, will allow the Victoria facility to employ a new Invista process that
provides higher ADN product yields while lowering energy consumption, greenhouse
gas emissions, and capital intensity than the current process. First scaled up
at Invista’s Orange, Texas, facility, the technology has also been deployed at
the Chalampe, France, site of Butachimie, Invista’s joint venture with BASF, and
it will be implemented in Invista’s new 400,000 metric tons/year ADN project in
Shanghai, China, which broke ground earlier this month.
ADN, a key
feedstock for nylon-6,6, has been tight in recent years. Three
producers—Invista, Ascend, and Asahi Kasei—control the technology used to
produce it at commercial scale.
As MRC informed earlier,
Invista’s world-scale adiponitrile (ADN) plant began construction on Tuesday in
the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP) in Jinshan District. The construction
is one of Shanghai’s 152 major projects for 2020. Investment in the plant
will total more than 70 billion yuan (USD9.89 billion). When completed in 2022,
it will supply 400,000 tons of ADN a year to China and the Asia Pacific
region.
As MRC informed earlier,
Invista technology and licensing group, INVISTA Performance Technologies
(IPT), and Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Co., Ltd (Hengli) are pleased to
announce that Hengli’s 4th PTA line utilising Invista P8 Process Technology has
met all performance guarantees. Hengli’s 4th PTA line of 2.5 million tonnes per
annum capacity, located in Changxing Island, Dalian City, Liaoning Province,
utilising Invista P8 PTA technology with industry leading variable cost,
capital productivity and environmental performance, came online on January 8th,
2020. This PTA line also produces benzoic acid as co-product, utilising
INVISTA’s proprietary R2R technology.
Àccording to MRC's DataScope report, April
imports amounted to 16,600 tonnes, 26% more than the previous month. External
supplies of material were at the level of 14,100 tonnes in April last year. The
volume of supplies of bottle grade PET from China to Ukraine over the fur months
of the year fell almost three times: from 36,400 tonnes in January-April 2019 to
12,200 tonnes.
Invista is one of the world’s largest producers of
chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers. It is owned by Koch Industries,
America’s largest privately held company. Since 2014, it has invested more than
4 billion yuan in manufacturing facilities in the Shanghai park.
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