Nisseki Chemical Hires E&C Firm and Begins Plant Expansion Construction in Texas

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Nisseki Chemical Texas Incorporated (Pasadena, Texas), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Petrochemicals Company Limited (Tokyo, Japan) has hired Aker Kvaerner Industrial Construction (Houston, Texas) as the engineering and construction firm for a major expansion and production unit addition at the company’s Pasadena, Texas chemical plant. This nearly $50 million project is the second major expansion of the Pasadena site reported by Industrialinfo.com in the last two years. See related Industry Alert titled: Nisseki Chemical Prepares to Startup New Unit in Texas.

This expansion includes the construction and duplication of an existing chemical intermediates production unit called ENB (Ethylidene Norbornene) located at the site. The existing 20,000 metric ton per year ENB unit was constructed and brought online only two years ago in June of 2003. This newest ENB unit will be Nisseki’s third such unit when including their sister plant located in Kashima, Japan, which also operates an ENB unit.

Civil construction began in late July and as of last week underground piping for firewater systems was underway. Mechanical and related construction activity is planned to begin in September with completion and scheduled startup planned for the fall of 2006.

Nisseki Chemical’s Pasadena plant site is relatively small in comparison to its petrochemical plant neighbors in Texas, however the company’s reported investments over the past few years are large, approaching $100 million.

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