Filtration Industry Analyst November 1998

exported, and is tentatively Dagang, China, and will serve ) HEAVY CRUDE scheduled for completion in JiangsuGold Coast East Paper 01~ PRO&SING 2000. After the expansion is Company, a subsidiaryof Asia HENKEL completed, Bayer’s total TDI Pulp and Paper Company VENTURE FOR OUTLINES capacity in the USA will be (China) Pte Ltd. The joint ven- 1 VENEZUELA 1 about 504 million pounds. ture, which will be known as Sincor CA, a joint venture AZELAIC ACID Bayer recently completed APP China Specialty Minerals company composed of Total INVESTMENT a US$140 million facility for Pte Ltd, will own, construct Venezuela, Petroleos de and operate the plant to pro- Henkel Corporation is to the manufacture of diphenyl- Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and duce filling grade PCC. The carry out a multi-mllhon dol- methane diisocyanate (MD]) Statoil Sincor AS, has satellite plant is expected to be lar debottlenecking project and an US$80 million polycar- awarded a US$750 million in operation by the first quarter to increase process efficiency, bonate resin capacity increase contract to Contrina to of 1999. as well as production capaci- at Baytown. Bayer will create design and build, on a APP Company (China) ty, of azelaic acid. about 40 new jobs related to turnkey basis, extra heavy Pte Ltd is a subsidiary of Asia The debottlenecking pro- the TDI expansion. crude oil facilities and associ- ject, which is scheduled to Pulp & Paper Company Ltd. ated utilities and offsites at come onstream at Henkel’s ENVIRONMENTAL Minerals Technologies and Jose, Venezuela. Asia Pulp & Paper have oper- Cincinnati, Ohio facility dur- IMPROVEMENTS Contrina is a joint venture ing 1999, follows the recent ated a joint venture at a paper company created for the completion of an US$8 million AT FMC mill in Perawang, Riau Venezuelan heavy oil upgrader purification plant at the same FMC Corporation has province of Sumatra, programme, and includes facility, which doubled pro- reached agreement with the Indonesia, since the third Technip of France, Brown & duction capacity of Henkel’s Environmental Protection quarter of 1997. Root and Parsons of the USA, polymer-grade azelaic acid, Agency and the Department as well as two Venezuelan EMEROX* 1144. of Justice on environmental firms. The project includes a improvements at its phos- crude/vacuum distillation unit, BASF, SOLVAY TO a mild hydrocracker, a naphtha phorus chemicals plant near .. . . . FORM PVC JV Pocatello, Idaho. distillate hydrotreater, sulfur FMC will spend approxi- FINA CHEMICAL ; handling facilities, and associ- BASF AG, Ludwigsbafen, ated utilities and offsites. Germany, and Solvay SA, mately US$93 million over the AWARDS I next four years. including Under the terms of the con- Brussels, Belgium, are to POLYPROPYLENE tract, Contrina will be responsi- form a joint venture incorpo- US$43 million of capital costs CONTRACT TO ble for design finalisation, rating the European opera- for waste treatment and other detail engineering, procure- ] tions of the two companies’ compliance projects. The com- JACOBS ment, construction,precommis- polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pany will also spend approxi- Fina Chemical has awarded and polyvinylidene chloride mately US$65 million over the Jacobs Serete (Paris) an sioning, commissioning and the (PVDC) businesses. next four years to conduct a engineering contract for the handover of the facilities. The agreement also covers number of supplemental envi- basic engineering on a 380 dichloroethane, vinyl chloride ronmental projects. US$63 000 ton per year polypropy (VC) and vinylidene chloride miIlion will be spent on air lene production line at Fina’s (VDC), and the chloralkali quality improvements. Feluy, Belgium plant. ARC0 BUILDS electrolysis plants operated by This project represents / 3RD MILLENNIUM / the two companiesin Belgium. the third polypropylene line CLASS CRUDE 01~ With headquarters in Brussels, at the Feluy site and the the new joint venture will be third consecutive polypropy- TANKER managed by Solvay. PCC SATELLITE PLANT PLANNED lene project Fina has awarded Arco Marine Inc is planning a Jacobs. third MilIennium Class state- BAYER CHOOSES FOR CHINA The contract value was not of-the-art crude oil tanker. BAYTOWN Specialty Minerals Inc, a disclosed.The new unit should The latest addition to Bayer is to build a new facil- wholly-owned subsidiary of be ready at the end of 2000. Arco’s fleet will be delivered ity to manufacture toluene Minerals Technologies Inc, Fina’s polypropylene opera- from Avondale Industries’ diisocyanate (TDI) at its has entered into a joint ven- tions produce polypropylene New Orleans shipyard in the Baytown, Texas site. ture agreement with Asia pellets for sale to the plastics first quarter of 2001. These The US$lSO million pro- Pulp & Paper Company industry for further processing Millennium class next genera- ject brings the total investment (China) Pte Ltd to build into durable and consumer tion tankers are designed in the expansion of Bayer’s China’s first precipitated goods. Jacobs will use virtual specifically for round-trip Baytown site to about US$1.3 calcium carbonate (PCC) office capabilities between its transport of crude oil from billion. This latest investment satellite plant. Paris, France and Houston, Valdez, Alaska to Cherry adds 220 million pounds of The satellite plant will be Texas offices to perform the Point, Washington and the port capacity, all of which will be located at a new paper mill in work. of Long Beach.