Evonik plans nylon 12 plant for Singapore

(cen.acs) -- Evonik Industries has picked Singapore as the location of a new plant for nylon 12, a specialty polymer used to make automotive brake and fuel lines. The company announced the decision as it attempts to recover from a plant explosion that has severely limited supplies of the polymer.

The Singapore plant will have 20,000 metric tons of annual capacity and should be completed in 2014, Evonik says. The company currently makes nylon 12 in Marl, Germany.

Nylon 12 supply was already tight on March 31 when an explosion occurred at an Evonik plant in Marl that makes cyclododecatriene (CDT), a critical precursor for nylon 12. Two workers were killed in the explosion. The plant supplies both Evonik and Evonik’s main rival in nylon 12, Arkema.

Weeks after the accident, automakers and their parts suppliers convened an emergency meeting near Detroit over a looming nylon 12 shortage (C&EN, April 23, page 6). There, Evonik and Arkema offered customers substitute nylons. That same month, the auto industry drafted guidelines for the fast-track approval of nylon 12 replacements in applications such as connectors and multilayer tubing.

Evonik says the CDT plant should be repaired in the fourth quarter, enabling nylon 12 supplies to return to normal soon thereafter.
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(chemeurope) -- Ineos Technologies has announced that is has licensed its Innovene G, Innovene S and Innovene PP processes to ZAO "Vostochnaya Neftechemicheskaya Company" (ZAO “VNHK”), a subsidiary of OJSC "NK Rosneft" for VNHK’s new petrochemical complex in Nakhodka Russian federation.

This is a second award for Ineos Technologies by Rosneft companies. Thus JSC Angarsk Polymer Plant in Angarsk, Russian Federation selected Innovene S PE technology in 2010.

All VNHK’s units will incorporate INEOS’ latest polymer technology advances and will ensure a competitive advantage for petrochemical complex customers in both domestic and global markets. Engineering work is now underway.
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(fibre2fashion) -- Government has sanctioned 21 new Textiles Parks under the Scheme for Integrated Textiles Parks with a project cost of Rs. 2100 crores to be implemented over a period of 36 months. Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles Shri Anand Sharma as Chairman of the Project Approval Committee under the Scheme accorded approval to the recommendations of the Inter Ministerial Project Scrutiny Committee which examined 55 proposals for new Textiles Parks in the country.

The Scheme for Integrated Textiles Parks seeks green field investments in textiles sector on a public private partnership basis with the objective of setting up world class infrastructure for Textiles industry.

Commerce, Industry and Textiles Minister Shri Anand Sharma said "sanction of new Textiles parks would catalyze significant additional investments with industry utilizing the benefits both under the Scheme for Integrated Textiles Parks for development of common infrastructure; and under the Technology Upgradation Funds Scheme for installation of Plant and Machinery."

Government has enhanced the allocation under TUFS from Rs. 8000 crores to Rs. 15404 crores under the 11th Five Year Plan and under the SITP an allocation of Rs. 400 crores has been made for sanction of new Textiles Parks in April 2011. Commerce Industry and Textiles Minister said that the new Textiles Parks would leverage an investment of over Rs. 9000 crores and provide employment to 4 lac textiles workers. Government would finance common infrastructure with a subsidy upto Rs. 40 crores per Textiles park.
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(fibre2fashion) -- Texhong Textile Group, counted among top ten Chinese enterprises in the cotton textile industry, has started construction of a yarn factory in Hai Yen industrial park in Vietnam’s northern province of Quang Ninh.

The Chinese firm is investing USD 300 million to build the yarn production factory on an area of 40 ha. It intends to construct six production units with a combined annual capacity of about 140,000 tons.

A cluster of four production units will be set up in the first and second phases of the project. On completion, these units will annually produce 92,000 tons of cotton and synthetic yarn, fabrics and other products.

The construction of two more production units will be taken up in the third phase, which is scheduled to be completed by 2017. These two units will have a total production capacity of 46,000 tons per year.

A portion of the yarn factory is expected to become operational in the third quarter of next year.
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(Fibre2fashion) -- Tongsuh Petrochemical, based in South Korean, will begin commercial production of a new line at its Acrylonitrile (ACN) plant in January 2013. Tongsuh is adding line No.4 at its Ulsan based ACN plant, which will have a production capacity of 245,000 tons per year.

Tongsuh has an ACN capacity of 315,000 tons per annum and with the addition of the new ACN line in 2013 will reach 560,000 tons per year.

Acrylonitrile is a chemical compound which is used for the manufacture of useful plastics.
Acrylonitrile is used principally as a monomer to prepare polyacrylonitrile, a homopolymer, or several important copolymers such as styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) and other synthetic rubbers such as acrylonitrile butadiene (NBR).
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