MOSCOW (MRC) -- Total Cray Valley (TCV) (part of Total S.A.) has started construction on its new C4 chemical manufacturing plant in Carling, France, which will be used for the production of liquid polybutadiene, according to GV.
According to the company, the plant will have the ability to produce several thousand tonnes of product per year. The plant is scheduled to begin production in October 2016. The facility in Carling will be TCV’s fifth manufacturing plant for liquid polybutadiene.
Based in Paris, France, TCV is part of Total’s Polymers division within the Refining & Chemicals branch. TCV provides polybutadiene homopolymers and copolymers with a broad range of molecular weights and microstructures. The company offers these products under a series of brands, including Poly bd, Ricon, and Krasol.
As MRC wrote before, in 2013, Total, Europe’s third-largest oil company, announced that it intended to invest EUR160m before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness. Total planed indeed to develop new activities on the platform in the growing markets for hydrocarbon resins (Cray Valley) and for polymers, while shutting down the acutely loss-making steam cracker in the second half of 2015.
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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