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Arkema upgrades its Texas acrylics facility
Arkema is investing $90 million on its Clear Lake, Texas site to replace existing acrylic acid production units with modern facilities using available technologies.
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As part of its operational excellence program, Arkema has launched a project that will replace two 45kt/year acrylic acid reactors at the end of their life with a single 90 kt/year reactor at its Clear Lake site. This investment will introduce new manufacturing assets using production technologies available.
The new unit is expected to come on stream by mid-2019. At completion of this program, Clear Lake's total acrylic acid production capacity will be 270 kt/year.
“Arkema will continue to meet customer demand from its American plants, which benefited from a previous modernization program between 2012 and 2014, as well as its European and Asian plants,” the company said in a press release. “Arkema will position the Clear Lake site among the most competitive in North America while meeting growing demand in the region.”
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