Total Lands Acrylate Ester Manufacturing Base in Guangzhou

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). French oil magnate Total (Paris, France), the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world, landed a special acrylate ester manufacturing base in Xiaohu (little tiger) island of Nansha Development Zone in Guangzhou city, South China.

Sartomer, Total's subsidiary company focusing on special chemicals production, is in charge of the development of this new base. This new base is to be developed in three phases. Phase I of the project absorbs an investment of $30 million and covers an area of over 70,000 square meters with a gross floor area of around 10,000 square meters. It will be put into full operation during the fourth quarter of this year once construction is completed.

The production capacity of phase I development will reach 17,000 tons of acrylate ester per year and it adopts U.S. and European environmental protection standards to ensure an environmentally friendly production process, according to Sartomer. It’s known that special acrylate ester material produced by Sartomer is set to meet demands from the Chinese and other Asian markets at large.

Total, the number one French Group, the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world and a major player in chemicals, has been in China for over 30 years. The number of Total employees in China today stands at more than 3,500 and its accumulated investment in China is around $1 billion. Its companies and representative offices can be seen in fourteen cities on Chinese mainland, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian (Shenyang city, Northeast China).

Sartomer is a premier global supplier of specialties for the ultraviolet (UV), electron beam (EB) term: radiation cure, peroxide, amine, and hybrid cured-in-place technologies. As Total’s chemical branch, Sartomer entered the Chinese market in 1990. Now it has a representative office in Beijing, an application laboratory in Shanghai, a sales office in Guangzhou and another representative office in Hong Kong apart from the Nansha plant currently under construction. The current sales of ultraviolet (UV) industries in China are the most outstanding with an annual growth rate of 15-20% percent in line with global trend.

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