NKNK lets contract for methanol unit

Jan. 14, 2019
PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe to deliver technology licensing and engineering services for a methanol unit to be built at NKNK’s petrochemical complex at Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. The 500,000-tonne/year unit will be used to produce methanol for production of formaldehyde that will be used as a feedstock for NKNK’s isoprene production.

TAIF Group subsidiary PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has let a contract to Haldor Topsoe AS to deliver technology licensing and engineering services for a methanol unit to be built at NKNK’s petrochemical complex at Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan.

The 500,000-tonne/year unit will be used to produce methanol for production of formaldehyde that will be used as a feedstock for NKNK’s isoprene production, Haldor Topsoe said.

While it disclosed neither a timeframe nor value of the contract, Haldor Topsoe said NKNK intends for the methanol unit to increase efficiency and reduce production costs at the complex’s isoprene production installations.

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