Synvina_Joint venture of BASF and Avantium established_For the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) as well as the marketing of the new polymer polyethylenefuranoate (PEF)_by chemwinfo

7 October 2016

ABOUT BASF

ABOUT AVAMTIUM

DETAILS

• Bio-based furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA)
  as main building block for
  the new polymer polyethylenefuranoate (PEF)
  
  
• FDCA production plant with
  up to 50,000 tons capacity planned
  
  
• PEF with multiple application opportunities like
  packaging, engineering plastics, coatings,
  and fibers
  
  
• Starting point to build up
  world-leading positions in FDCA and PEF

BASF and Avantium 

today announced the formation of a joint venture (JV)

for the production and marketing of

furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA),

which is produced from renewable resources, as well as

the marketing of the new polymer

polyethylenefuranoate (PEF)

based on the new chemical building block FDCA.

The aim of the JV named

Synvina

with headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

is to build up world-leading positions

in FDCA and PEF.

Verbund site, Antwerp, Belgium

It is planned to invest a mid-three-digit million euro sum

to build a reference plant with an annual capacity of

up to 50,000 metric tons per year

at BASF’s Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium,

and to license the technology

for industrial scale production.

For the production of FDCA, Synvina will use

the YXY process® 

developed by Avantium

which is based on fructose

as renewable raw material.

READ MORE

Contact BASF

Klaus-Peter Rieser 

+49 621 60-95138

Send Mail

Contact Avantium 
Alex de Vries
Phone: +31 20 586 0132
Mobile: + 31 651 11 9205
E-mail:  alex.de.vries@msl.nl

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