21 January 2015
ABOUT 1,4 BUTANEDIOL, BDO
BDO is used for producing
plastics, solvents, electronic chemicals and
elastic fibers.
Depending on the production technology,
the starting materials for
the production of conventional BDO are
natural gas, coal, butane, butadiene and propylene.
DETAILS
BASF will increase its production capacities for
the chemical intermediate
1,4-butanediol (BDO) by 10%
at its site in Geismar/Louisiana as of 2016.
The company will then have
a global capacity of BDO of 670,000 metric tons per year.
Additionally, BASF looks into further measures to
strengthen and to expand its BDO value chain
at the Geismar site.
To increase the capacities of BDO according to
the steadily growing customer demand,
BASF continuously implements measures to
boost efficiency and improve infrastructure
at all its sites.
1. Besides its Geismar site BASF is producing BDO at its sites in
2. Ludwigshafen/Germany,
3. Kuantan/Malaysia,
4. Caojing/China and
5. Chiba/Japan.
6. In addition, a new BDO site of
a joint venture of BASF and the Chinese company
Xinjiang Markor is expected to
commence operations of 100,000 metric tons
BDO per year by 2015.
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