China drying wire Reuters recently some companies have announced plans to create a new butadiene production facilities in Europe, by 2015 Europe will remain the world's leading exporter of butadiene.
This year, BASF, LyondellBasell, Hungary TVK and Italy Versalis have all announced that they will build butadiene projects, with a total capacity of approximately 425,000 tons/year, which is planned to be completed before 2015, which will increase European butadiene production capacity by then. 16%.
In July, BASF announced that in view of the increasingly tight supply of butadiene in the global market and the increasing demand for tires and other industries, the company will build a 155,000 tonne/year butadiene extraction facility in Antwerp, Belgium. It was put into production this year and became the fifth largest butadiene producer in Europe after Ingrecio, LyondellBasell, Versalis and Dow Chemical. It is currently the tenth largest producer in Europe.
Also in July, Versalis of Italy confirmed externally that a butadiene extraction plant with a capacity of 70,000 tons/year will be built in Dunkirk, France, which will increase its butadiene production capacity by 25%. In February this year, LyondellBasell announced that it will expand its butadiene plant in Wesseling, Germany, and increase its production capacity by 40% after the completion of the expansion and reconstruction in the fourth quarter of 2013, to reach 238,000 tons. /year. Earlier this year, the Hungarian producer TVK stated that it will build a butadiene extraction plant with a capacity of 130,000 tons/year in Hungary and plan to put it into operation before 2015.
According to statistics from the European Petrochemical Manufacturers Association, the production of butadiene in Western Europe in 2011 was 2.087 million tons, of which 12% was for export. This year due to the economic recession in the Eurozone, butadiene consumption in Europe is further reduced, and butadiene exports in Western Europe are likely to increase.
Market analysts believe that the use of crude C4 raw materials by European companies to expand butadiene production capacity may further increase the tightness of butadiene supply in the U.S. market, because after the U.S. ethylene raw materials are lightened, the country often imports a considerable number of European crudes each year. C4 raw materials to produce butadiene products.
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