Polyamide 6.6 production boost for BASF
Chemicals group BASF has announced two developments that will help it expand the polyamide 6.6 business that it acquired from Solvay at the start of 2020.
It is to build a new plant at Chalampé in eastern France for producing hexamethylene diamine (HMD), a precursor in the production of high-quality polyamide 6.6 plastics and coating raw materials. The new factory will come into operation in 2024 and will have the capacity to produce 260,000 tonnes of HMD per year.
Chalampé is on the river Rhine, near Mulhouse, right on the border with Germany.
In addition, BASF will expand its polyamide 6.6 production in Freiburg, Germany. Work on this expansion project will begin in 2022.
President of BASF’s monomers division, Dr Ramkumar Dhruva, said the group was taking these steps in response to increasing demand in the market for HMD and PA6.6.
