AMSTERDAM — Nouryon will start development of a manufacturing facility at its current site in Ningbo, China, to produce two key intermediates for its organic peroxides business: tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) and tert-Butyl alcohol (TBA). Organic peroxides are essential ingredients in the production of polymers and composites.
The manufacturing facility is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2021 and will have an annual capacity for 35,000 tons of TBHP/TBA. TBHP is an intermediate in Nouryon’s organic peroxide production process and is also used as a polymerization initiator for coating resins and other products; TBA is a raw material used both for the production of organic peroxides and other specialty chemicals.