BASF enhances its North American manufacturing operations for copper-chrome catalysts
BASF has initiated a number of capital investment projects to enhance the company’s manufacturing operations for copper-chrome catalysts at its production sites in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Elyria, Ohio.
These multi-million dollar investments are aimed at reengineering, retrofitting and further automating the catalysts manufacturing environment at both sites. The operational improvement projects will be completed in phases through the early part of 2011.
“Through these investments, BASF is demonstrating its commitment to meeting our customers’ needs for copper-chrome catalysts over the long term,” said Dr. Michael Baier, BASF’s vice president for chemical market catalysts. “At the same time, these projects will reduce our material handling requirements at both sites, and allow us to create a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment for these important products.”
BASF’s Erie and Elyria sites produce a wide variety of base-metal catalysts, which are primarily used in petrochemical and oleochemical processing. Typical catalyst applications include guard beds, hydrogenation processes, such as solvent and gasoline dearomatization, dehydrogenation processes, monomer production and manufacturing of specialty and detergent alcohols.
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