Worley awarded FEED contract for Avantium FDCA plant in Delfzijl

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Worley has been awarded the FEED (front-end engineering design) of the furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) production plant of Avantium Renewable Polymers (Avantium subsidiary) in Delfzijl (the Netherlands). FDCA is a key building block for sustainable chemicals and polymers, such as the next-generation plastic material polyethylene furanoate (PEF).
Press release: “From plants to plastics: bringing a next-generation sustainable plastic to the market”, 11/6/2020.
Related posts:
- “BBI JU awards PEFerence project with 25 M€ for establishing a complete FDCA value chain”, 9/6/2017.
- “BASF leaves Synvina”, 19/12/2018.
- “Avantium redefines its commercialization strategy of PEF”, 10/6/2019.
- “Avantium to provide PEF for the fully biobased and recyclable Paper Bottle”, 14/10/2019.

Figure 1. FDCA is a key building block for sustainable chemicals and polymers, such as the next-generation plastic material polyethylene furanoate (taken from “Avantium: Changing the world, one bottle at a time”)

Avantium Renewable Polymers has completed the demonstration of its YXY® plant-to-plastics technology in a pilot plant. Worley is carrying out the FEED for the new plant that will make FDCA and PEF commercially available. They also completed the concept development phase in March and concluded that the technology is ready to progress to commercial scale. Worley aims to complete the FEED phase at the end of this year, enabling Avantium to take a final investment decision for construction of the flagship plant at the end of 2020. The plant is scheduled to start up in 2023.

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