Chemical Company Builds State-of-the-Art Resin Plant
Eternal Chemical Co. Ltd., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the second largest resin manufacturer in Asia, producing over 180,000 metric tons per year (mty). It successfully exports a large portion of the produced resins to other Asian countries, despite operating in a very competitive market. In 1994 Eternal needed to increase its capacity and upgrade its operations and profit situation.
Eternal placed an order with RHE H¿el Engineering GmbH, specialists in the design and supply of resin manufacturing plants. Eternal learned of RHE through their sister company in Thailand and was impressed by the efficient operations, innovative design, and high profitability of the Thailand project. In comparison, the existing resin manufacturing plants operated by Eternal in Taiwan, all supplied by local engineering houses, experienced operational and profitability problems. These problems included long batch times and high raw material consumption rates. Eternal placed an order with RHE for two resin manufacturing trains: one for the manufacture of alkyd resins and one for the manufacture of both alkyd and saturated polyesters resins.