13 February 2013
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Asahi Kasei Chemicals held a grand opening ceramony for
a new acrylonitrile (AN) and Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) plants
in Thailand on 11 February 2013.
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Asahi Kasei Chemicals and AN and MMA
- Asahi Kasei Chemicals is the largest supplier of
Acrylonitrile (AN) in the high-growth asian market
- and the World's second largest Acrylonitrile (AN) supplier.
- Asahi Kasei is proactively expanding its AN business
to meet the growing demand as a world-leading business
and also expanding MMA business to meet demand
in the growing market of Asia as well as Japan.
About PTT Asahi Chemical Co.,Ltd.
Plant : The world's first propane process AN plant
Location : Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand
Capacity :
* 200,000 tons per year of Acrylonitrile (AN),
by propane-process
(using propane directly as feedstock)
* 70,000 tons per year of Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) by
acetone cyanohydrin (ACH process), using byproduct
hydrogen cyanide from the AN plant as feedstock
* 160,000 tons per year of ammonium sulfate
Ownership interest
* 48.5 % by Asahi Kasei Chemicals
* 48.5 % by PTT
* 3.0 % by Marubeni
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