Evonik producing CDT and polyamide 12 without any limitations

CDT plant passes performance test

28-Feb-2013 - As recently as ten months after the fire in Evonik Industries’ cyclododecatriene (CDT) plant, CDT-based VESTAMID® products and its precursors are available once again without limitations, thus force majeure ceased. After the reconstructed plant resumed operations at the Marl site in December, it ...

Evonik expands its market position for C4-based products

16-Jan-2013 - Evonik Industries is further expanding its market in C4-based products and investing in the expansion of its production facilities. The Group’s 1-butene capacity in Marl Chemical Park will be expanded by 75,000 tons. In Antwerp, the production of butadiene will be expanded by 100,000 tons, while ...

Evonik expands US production of precipitated silica

Thirty percent global capacity expansions planned for silica by 2014

21-Dec-2012 - Evonik Industries plans to increase its annual production capacities for precipitated silica at its US site in Chester, PA by around 20,000 metric tons. The new facility, which received an investment in the lower double-digit Euros range, is scheduled to become operational in 2014. The capacity ...

Evonik: U.S. expansion of L-lysine capacity completed

10-Dec-2012 - Evonik Industries completed its expansion of capacity for the feed amino acid L-lysine in North America in autumn 2012. Production capacity at the Blair site in Nebraska, U.S.A., was doubled to 280,000 metric tons per year in two stages. “Evonik is also working to further expand capacity by ...

Operating permit for CDT plant in Marl

05-Dec-2012 - The extensive work to repair the damage caused by the fire at the CDT plant of Evonik Industries at Chemiepark Marl has now been completed. In November, the Münster district government issued an operating permit pursuant to the German Federal Emissions Law (BImSchG). All mechanical systems of the ...

Pioneers in isophorone chemistry

19-Nov-2012 - On November 16, Evonik will celebrate 50 years of making isophorone chemicals. This is an important milestone for the company, and some 200 customers, employees, and pensioned former employees will join Evonik Executive Board members Dr. Thomas Haeberle and Thomas Wessel in Herne to look back on ...

Expanding collaboration between DKSH and Evonik

DKSH Performance Materials will distribute Evonik’s coatings products in parts of South East Asia

26-Oct-2012 - Performance Materials, a specialty chemicals distributor, has expanded the partnership in the field of coatings and additives with Evonik Industries. This new alliance follows the time-proven collaboration between DKSH and Evonik that was established already in the late nineties. In accordance ...

Roof-topping ceremony for Evonik’s new hydrogen peroxide plant in Jilin (China)

22-Oct-2012 - Evonik Industries marked the roof-topping phase of construction for its hydrogen peroxide plant in Jilin, China, with a ceremony on October 19, 2012. Situated in the northeast of the country, the plant is due to go online in late 2013 with an annual capacity for the production of 230,000 metric ...

Evonik to increase production capacity for 1-butene

75,000 metric ton capacity increase at the Marl site - Start-up scheduled for 2015

04-Oct-2012 - Evonik Industries plans to increase the production capacity for 1-butene at its Marl site by 75,000 metric tons per year, and start-up is scheduled for 2015. With a total capacity of 310,000 metric tons, Evonik would then be the world's top producer of 1-butene. Basic engineering for the ...

CR Report 2011: Evonik significantly improves its environmental efficiency

Evonik reduces its energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and water consumption by 17 to 27 percent in relation to production output

07-Jun-2012 - Evonik Industries AG has significantly improved its environmental efficiency. This is highlighted in the company’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report, which attests that Evonik reduced its specific, i.e. emissions relative to output, energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent in the ...