24 April 2017
DETAILS
Thierry Le Hénaff,
Arkema Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
inaugurates the new specialty molecular sieve capacity
at the Honfleur plant today.
This new plant will enable the Group to support
its customers’ growth in
the refining and petrochemicals markets,
in particular in Asia and the Middle East.
This investment of some €60 million
supports the development
of the High Performance Materials segment,
represents one of the Group’s growth drivers,
and consolidates its n° 2 world ranking
in molecular sieves.
Arkema is the world’s second largest producer
of molecular sieves.
These products are used
for their adsorption and dehydration properties,
primarily in
* industrial gases and
* in some petrochemical plants,
* as well as in health (medical oxygen),
* construction,
* and pharmaceutical packaging applications.
The inauguration on the Honfleur site in France
on Monday 24 April 2017 marks the official launch
of the doubling of capacity
for Arkema’s specialty molecular sieves
dedicated to aromatics separation in petrochemicals,
in particular xylene separation.
The new facility will enable Arkema
to support its customers’ growth
in the refining and petrochemicals markets,
in particular in Asia and the Middle East,
supplying the synthetic textile
and PET bottle end-markets.
This new unit demonstrates Arkema’s expertise
in specialty molecular sieves,
while consolidating the IFPEN (IFP Energies nouvelles) /
Axens / Arkema cluster of excellence in France
for the supply of innovative technologies and solutions.
Representing an investment of some €60 million,
this capacity extension concerns
two ultra high performance molecular sieve plants
producing in particular the latest generation
Siliporite® SPX 5003.
The plants came on stream in line
with the planned timetable. In line with
the Group’s progress drive, the best available techniques
chosen for these new facilities enabled
to develop a new technology
to optimize the recycling of the plant’s effluents.
Furthermore, by using digital technologies, ergonomics
and working conditions matters could be addressed
from the project’s design phase.
With this project some fifteen direct jobs
were created on the Honfleur site.
INVESTOR RELATIONS
Sophie Fouillat
+33 1 49 00 86 37
sophie.fouillat@arkema.com
François Ruas
+33 1 49 00 72 07
françois.ruas@arkema.com
PRESS CONTACTS
Gilles Galinier
+33 1 49 00 70 07
gilles.galinier@arkema.com
Véronique Obrecht
+33 1 49 00 88 41
veronique.obrecht@arkema.com
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