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2006-09-27 News Release
Hydrogen peroxide propylene oxide JV for polyurethane business BASF, Dow, Solvay partnership breaks new ground on plant construction with innovative hydrogen peroxide propylene oxide technology for polyurethane projects.
BASF Aktiengesellschaft (BASF) and The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) today
launched a long-term venture to produce propylene oxide (PO) at the world’s
first commercial-scale hydrogen peroxide propylene oxide (HPPO) plant
at BASF’s site in Antwerp, Belgium. This plant uses a new technology
developed jointly by BASF and Dow. PO is a core ingredient for the $21
billion a year polyurethane industry. Solvay S.A. (Solvay) will be a key
supplier to the new, innovative facility. The HPPO plant will be fed with hydrogen peroxide (HP) from a second new plant at the Antwerp site. The HP plant will have a capacity of 230,000 metric tons per year and will be constructed by Solvay, BASF and Dow. The 300,000 metric tons per year HPPO plant, which is being built jointly by BASF and Dow, is scheduled to start up in early 2008.
Today, Belgium Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt joined Dow’s Chairman and Chief Executive, Andrew Liveris, Solvay’s Chairman of the Executive Committee, Christian Jourquin, and BASF’s Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, Dr. Jurgen Hambrecht, at the project’s official groundbreaking ceremony. Each of them planted a tree to commemorate the start of construction and to symbolize the growth opportunities and the environmental benefits generated by the innovative HPPO process. A partnership in innovation BASF’s Jürgen Hambrecht said: "The HPPO plant will further strengthen our successful polyurethanes business. With Dow and Solvay, we have two strong partners in implementing this innovative technology.” “Today is an important milestone in an exciting industrial project, based on the most advanced proprietary technology. This impressive realization is a tribute to our longstanding and successful co-operation with BASF and Dow. We are happy and proud that BASF and Dow chose our technology for this important project”, said Christian Jourquin. In 2003, Dow and BASF began their joint process research program to develop and commercialize the HPPO technology. This partnership allowed the two companies to combine their innovation strengths and thereby commercialize the technology more rapidly than would have been possible by either partner alone. Dow and BASF are considering the development of additional HPPO projects in other regions, including Asia. BASF also plans to utilize the HPPO technology with a project at its Geismar, Louisiana, site in the United States. The benefits of HPPO Economic benefits . Require up to 25 percent less capital to build. . Reducing wastewater by 70 to 80 percent, compared with existing PO
technology. . Complex raw material needs and the associated infrastructure. PO manufacturing joint venture At the same time, Solvay and BASF established a joint venture to construct a 230,000 metric tons per year HP plant at the Antwerp site based on Solvay’s high productivity HP technology. A partnership was subsequently set up by this joint venture and Dow for the financing of the HP plant, which is scheduled to come on stream in 2008. The new HP plant will be the largest single-train HP plant in the world. Uses of propylene oxide Polyurethanes make life better, safer and more comfortable. They are used in products for sports and leisure activities, in the home and the car, and for many items from armrests, steering wheels, mattresses and headrests, to refrigerators, cable sheathing, shoe soles and roller skates. With its versatile properties, this plastic material improves our quality of life wherever it’s used. Propylene glycols are used in a wide variety of end-use and industrial applications, from unsaturated polyester resins, cosmetics and household detergents to paints, aircraft and runway deicers and automotive brake fluids. Propylene glycol ethers are commonly used as solvents and coupling agents in paints and in the production of coatings, inks, resins and cleaners. PO is also used to manufacture propoxylated or specialty organic compounds, including flame retardants, modified carbohydrates (starches), synthetic lubricants and oil field drilling chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide (HP) is used for its oxidizing properties in applications
such as bleaching paper and textile, the treatment of effluents, in pharmacology
and as an intermediate in the chemical industry. Hydrogen peroxide breaks
down into water and oxygen. As a consequence, its utilization for the
production of Propylene oxide generates no byproducts and no residue -
except water. Likewise, the HP route could bring environmental benefits
to processes for the production of a number of other chemicals.
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