Songwon announces the start up of its new isobutylene facility
Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. announce that its new $20 Million isobutylene (IBL) production facility, located at the Maeam site in South Korea, has been successfully commissioned and is now fully in production.

The Songwon IBL (Isobutylene) production facility at the Maeam Site in South Korea with a capacity of 30,000 tons based on the catalytic cracking of TBA (t-butanol).
Jongho Park, Chairman and CEO of Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd. commented; “It represents a number of milestones for the chemical world; not only is it the first large scale IBL production facility globally - with a total capacity of 30,000 tons; it is also based on proprietary TBA (t-butanol) cracking technology. This will ensure that our quality is consistently of the highest level and that commercially we will be a strong competitive force in the market place. I am particularly proud of the environmental benefits we have achieved in this new IBL process”.
Catalytic cracking of TBA has a number of key advantages in comparison with the other technologies to produce IBL, which are mostly derived from oil. Songwon is no longer affected by the volatile market pricing of IBL, which is an important component in its wide range of antioxidants, and will use less energy to achieve its production volume.
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