MOSCOW (MRC) -- Honeywell’s performance materials and technologies segment reports fourth-quarter profits down 25.7% YOY, to USD478 million, on sales down 10.5%, to USD2.5 billion, according to Chemweek.
Sales declined to on continued delays in Process Solutions automation projects as well as volume declines in smart energy and thermal solutions, and lower gas processing projects, catalyst shipments, licensing, and engineering due to softness in the oil and gas sector in UOP, partially offset by return to growth in Advanced Materials driven by demand for fluorine products. Segment margin contracted 380 basis points to 18.7% driven by the impact of lower sales volumes and mix, partially offset by productivity actions.
Honeywell’s net income declined 13.3% YOY, to USD1.4 billion. Adjusted earnings per share of USD2.07 was a penny higher YOY and beat the analysts’ consensus estimate of USD2.00, as reported by Refinitiv (New York). Net sales were down 6.3% YOY, to USD8.9 billion.
As MRC reported earlier, in May, 2020, Honeywell announced that Enterprise Products Partners L.P. will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology in its second propane dehydrogenation plant, called "PDH 2". Located near Mont Belvieu, Texas, PDH 2 will produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene as part of Enterprise’s expansion of propylene manufacturing capacity.
We remind that in November, 2020, Honeywell announced Zhenhua Petrochemical Co. Ltd will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology for propane dehydrogenation to process 1 million metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in Dongying City, Shandong Province, China.
Propylene is the main feedstock for the production of polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PP imports into Russia increased by 23% year on year to about 224,000 tonnes in 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
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