ITALY: Versalis announces expansion plans to increase Italian ABS capacity

Eni's Versalis plans to increase production capacity for acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) at its Mantua, Italy, facility, according to several industry reports. The project will boost ABS capacity at its existing unit by 30,000 t/y. The engineering phase has already begun, and production is scheduled to start in 2020.

Versalis may add another 70,000 t/y of ABS capacity with an additional unit at the site, which would be based on the company's One Step technology. A pilot plant was started up at Mantua last year to validate the One Step technology.

Source: Weekly “PetroChemical News”, Durham, NC, USA; 15 Oct 2018
(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)