Plant News
LANXESS set to build 2nd S'pore plant
Published in The Straits Times, March 3, 2012
GERMAN chemicals firm Lanxess is ready to start building its second factory in Singapore after securing supplies of vital raw materials.
Lanxess will break ground on the €200 million (S$331.5 million) plant on Sept 11 with production due to start in the first half of 2015. The facility will be in Jurong Island Chemical Park and is expected to produce 140,000 tonnes of neodymium polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) - a rubber polymer - each year. This will be the highest level of output from such a plant worldwide.
LANXESS to build second synthetic rubber plant
By Ronnie Lim, Published in The Business Times, March 2, 2012
STRONG demand, especially in Asia, for 'green', environmentally friendly tyres has clearly outweighed eurozone jitters, with Germany's LANXESS saying yesterday that it will go ahead to build a second synthetic rubber plant costing 200 million euros (S$333 million) here.
With engineering work already well advanced, it will break ground on the Nd-PBR (neodymium polybutadiene) facility on Sept 11, with the plant on Jurong Island expected to start up in the first half of 2015.
The German chemicals group has just sewn up feedstock and steam supply deals with Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore and Tuas Power for the Nd-PBR plant - bringing its total investment here to more than S$1 billion.
LANXESS set to tie up biomass feedstock deal
By Ronnie Lim, Published in The Business Times, September 27, 2011
GERMANY’S LANXESS is set to sign a long-term biomass feedstock deal by year-end with US biomass company Gevo, with this potentially helping Singapore’s “biomass-to-chemicals” plan take root on Jurong Island.
The deal will see Gevo supplying bio-isobutanol to the German chemical company’s plants, including initially to Sarnia, Canada, “where we are currently engineering a hydration plant (to process the biomass feedstock)”, Ron Commander, LANXESS’ butyl rubber chief told BT.
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LANXESS to invest $350m in Jurong rubber plant
By Ian Poh, Published in The Straits Times, June 2, 2011
GERMAN chemicals company LANXESS yesterday announced plans to invest
$350 million in Singapore in the largest synthetic rubber plant of its kind in the
world.
The new plant on Jurong Island is expected to produce 140,000 tonnes of neodymium polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) – a rubber polymer – a year, the highest level of output from such a plant worldwide.
Tyres produced using Nd-PBR are said to offer better grip on roads and
make less noise. About 100 jobs will be created, the company said.
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LANXESS to set up 200m euro 'green rubber' plant
By Mindy Tan, Published in The Business Times, June 2, 2011
German specialty chemicals firm LANXESS yesterday said it has chosen Singapore’s Jurong Island as the site for its new, 200-million-euro (S$355 million) neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) plant.
The plant will be the largest of its kind in the world. It is the company’s second-largest investment project, after the butyl plant located on Jurong Island. It will produce 140,000 tonnes per annum.
The plant, which is expected to start up in the first half of 2015, will create
some 100 skilled positions.
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