Avantium redefines its commercialization strategy of PEF
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
After BASF left Synvina earlier this year,
Avantium acquired 100% ownership of the joint venture. The YXY technology,
know-how and people have reverted to Avantium and the business unit has been
renamed Avantium Renewable Polymers in order to operate under the Avantium
brand. During the last months, the company has explored different scenarios
with potential partners and customers to redefine the commercialization
strategy of PEF meeting both market and capital requirements. The Technology
& Markets Day held at its headquarters in Amsterdam on 6th June
served to unveil this strategy.
Press release: “Entering
the Commercialization Phase for PEF”, 6/6/2019.
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Figure 1. The way towards the PEF flagship
plant and licensing business (extracted from the presentation “Deep
Dive Renewable Polymers: Path to Flagship Plant”, Marcel Lubben, Avantium Managing
Director, Technology & Markets Day, 6th June 2019)
Highlights of the new strategy:
- Avantium intends to build a cash-flow
positive flagship plant with a planned annual capacity of 5 ktons of FDCA and
PEF. Initially, the first FDCA plant would have a capacity of 50 ktons.
- The plant will produce products for high-value
markets and performance applications such as high-barrier films and specialty
bottles.
- Avantium maintains control of flagship and
licensing business of YXY, while building a network of committed partners
throughout the value chain.
- Worley (formerly Jacobs Engineering) is executing
the detailed engineering studies.
- Site selection in northwestern continental
Europe is to be completed in the second half of 2019.
- The investment decision for construction of the
flagship plant is planned for the end of 2020 and it is slated to start up in
2023.