INEOS Phenol Awards Alliance Contract to Aker Kvaerner

INEOS-Phenol GmbH & Co KG. has awarded AK Engineering Services an alliance contract to assist in upgrading their Phenol-Acetone plant in Doel, Belgium. This alliance contract will be managed from the Aker Kvaerner offices in Antwerp, Belgium with support from Stockton, UK.

Under this alliance, Aker Kvaerner provides engineering services, including feasibility and front-end studies to prepare a bid package for basic engineering for the capacity increase of the plant.

Using its own proprietary technology, INEOS Phenol will further increase the plant capacity to 640,000 tpa, with start-up set for October 2006. Pre-engineering has already commenced, supported by this alliance agreement with Aker Kvaerner.

INEOS Phenol is the world's largest producer and marketer of Phenol and Acetone. These feedstocks are used in derivative products used for the manufacture of consumer products such as aspirin, car bumpers, household appliances, compact discs and acrylic glass.

INEOS Phenol has decided to continue its growth strategy by significantly expanding its Antwerp production facility. Originally established for an annual production of 200,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) of phenol in 1993, the plant was expanded to 420,000 tpa with a second line in 1997. The recent debottlenecking established with assistance from Aker Kvaerner has increased that capacity to 450,000 tpa.

Added to site on 20/04/04

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