MUNICH, MARCH 20, 2024 – Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical firm, and its course of associate Lummus Expertise have been chosen by Huizhou Boeko Supplies Co. Ltd., to supply their CATOFIN catalyst and course of know-how for the dehydrogenation of isobutane on the new plant in Huizhou Metropolis, China. The method know-how is solely licensed by Lummus Expertise, whereas the tailored catalyst is provided by Clariant. It’s the first time Huizhou Boeko will license the CATOFIN know-how at certainly one of their websites.
The scope of the present award contains the know-how license and primary engineering. As soon as full, the plant will produce 550,000 metric tons each year (MTA) of internet isobutylene, which is able to function feedstock for the downstream manufacturing of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). The extremely environment friendly CATOFIN course of makes use of fixed-bed reactors and operates at optimum reactor strain and temperature to maximise catalytic dehydrogenation of isobutane for top yields of isobutylene at low funding and working prices.
“We’re delighted to ship our business main CATOFIN catalyst to this primary Huizhou Boeko plant and stay up for a fruitful partnership. CATOFIN presents wonderful reliability and productiveness, yielding superior annual manufacturing output, which in flip results in elevated general profitability for the plant,” stated Jens Cuntze, Enterprise President Catalysts and APAC at Clariant.
New plant ensures buyer proximity and covers growing demand
Since its business launch in 2017, CATOFIN has been chosen for 39 new tasks all over the world. Greater than 50% of those crops are positioned in China. To satisfy the quickly growing demand of consumers like Huizhou Boeko within the area and to make sure shut proximity, Clariant just lately opened a brand new CATOFIN catalyst plant with important manufacturing capability in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China in April 2023.
