Noury­on and INEOS Nitriles break ground on new facil­it­ies in Germany

Demand for che­lates has increased strongly fol­low­ing the European ban on phos­phates in con­sumer auto­mat­ic dish­wash­er deter­gents. Che­lates are more sus­tain­able than the phos­phates they replace. INEOS will oper­ate and main­tain the new facil­it­ies as well as provide key raw mater­i­als. ​“This long-term agree­ment with INEOS will sup­port the growth of cus­tom­er demand for read­ily bio­de­grad­able che­lates in home and per­son­al care applic­a­tions such as deter­gents, which are a key stra­tegic mar­ket for us,” said Larry Ryan, Exec­ut­ive Vice Pres­id­ent and Pres­id­ent of Per­form­ance For­mu­la­tions and the Amer­icas at Noury­on. INEOS Nitriles is the world’s largest pro­du­cer of acryloni­trile, a vital raw mater­i­al for products used in the auto­mot­ive, home appli­ance, gar­ment, car­bon fiber and water puri­fic­a­tion sec­tors. The agree­ment is sim­il­ar to an exist­ing part­ner­ship between INEOS and Noury­on at their adja­cent facil­it­ies in Lima, Ohio, United States. ​“Our rela­tion­ship with Noury­on over the past years has proven to be mutu­ally bene­fi­cial. We look for­ward to build­ing on that suc­cess, and we are proud that the products developed through this expan­sion in our part­ner­ship will lead to a more sus­tain­able industry,” says Hans Casi­er, CEO of INEOS Nitriles. The star­tup of the new facil­it­ies will strengthen Nouryon’s glob­al foot­print in the sup­ply of read­ily bio­de­grad­able che­lates to Asia, Europe and North Amer­ica. It fol­lows com­ple­tion of pro­duc­tion facil­it­ies at Ningbo, China in 2016 and is the next step to expand Nouryon’s cap­ab­il­it­ies to meet the needs of its cus­tom­ers in the European mar­ket. ​“This capa­city expan­sion under­lines the company’s strategy of invest­ing in attract­ive growth mar­kets and its com­mit­ment to sus­tain­able growth plat­forms,” said Noury­on CEO Charlie Shaver. ​“It will enable us to bet­ter sup­port the future growth plans of our cus­tom­ers. They will bene­fit from our con­tin­ued efforts to improve glob­al sup­ply chain per­form­ance and optim­iz­a­tion, and the abil­ity to pro­duce more sus­tain­able products.” Source: Noury­on, News Release, 04.03.2020