BASF increases capacity for ethanolamines
BASF is raising its annual capacity to produce ethanolamines from 182,000 to 230,000 metric tons. The progressive capacity increase of plants at the two integrated Verbund sites of Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium, is to be completed by fall 2006. "We are responding to the continuing high level of external and internal demand for these products," says Dr. Winfried Müller, head of the Regional Business Unit amines within BASF's Intermediates operating division. BASF counts among the most important global suppliers of amines and is the market leader for ethanolamines in Europe.
Ethanolamines are used to make surfactants for detergents and cleaning agents, but also wood preservatives, herbicides, gas scrubbing process chemicals, coolants, lubricants and products for the cement industry. A major part of the ethanolamine output is processed further within BASF's integrated Verbund structure, for example into ethyleneamines, another important product group within the company's amine portfolio.
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