Total and Domo Chemicals inaugurate joint project at Leuna Refinery in Germany
Total and Domo Chemicals inaugurated a 60 million-euro benzene production and extraction project at Total’s Leuna Refinery in Germany. The project consisted of constructing a new unit at the refinery that enriches an intermediate product from the gasoline production. The entire output will be sent via a 1.6 pm pipeline to a new caprolactam producing unit at Domo. Both units started operation at the beginning of 2018.
The joint project was announced in 2016 when Domo had demand for 180,000 tonnes-per-year of benzene. It was initially stated that Total would produce 70,000 tonnes per-year of the feedstock to start.
“This investment ensures our long-term access to a strategic feedstock for our integrated polyamide 6 production sequence,” Luc De Raedt, managing director of DOMO Caproleuna GmbH said in a 2016 statement.
“TOTAL’s and Domo’s investment represents an important step to further consolidate our networking at our Leuna chemical site. This project impressively demonstrates how potential synergies are successfully developed in Leuna, in close and trustful cooperation across corporate boundaries. I am especially pleased that, in the 100th year of
Domo and the TOTAL have been working together for years. The refinery already supplies propylene, an important raw material of caprolactam and polyamide 6 productions.
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