Recent Market News on Tert-butyl Alcohol

What Is Tert-butyl Alcohol

Tert-butyl alcohol is acolorless crystal, a colorless volatile liquid in the presence of a smallamount of water, has a camphor-likeodor, is hygroscopic, is soluble in ethanol and ether, can form an azeotropewith water, and is soluble in large amounts of water. Most organic solvents,such as alcohols, esters, ketones, aromatics and aliphatic hydrocarbons, canform an azeotrope with water, with a water content of 21.76% and an azeotropeof 79.92°C. Adding potassium carbonate to the aqueous solution can It is layered.It is flammable, and its vapor and air can form an explosive mixture, which cancause combustion and explosion in case of open fire and high heat energy. Itcan react strongly with oxidants.

Tert-butyl Alcohol Market News

• IRIS Program Has Released ExternalReview Draft

The US EPA’sIntegrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program has released external reviewdraft assessments of ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) and tert-butyl alcohol(tert-butanol or tBA) for peer review by the agency's Science Advisory Board(SAB).

The SABChemical Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAC), augmented for the purpose of thereview, will hold a public teleconference and a public face-to-face meeting.

• Nouryon Will Start the Development of AManufacturing Facility

In the past two years, Nouryon has announcedmore than 20 capacity expansion projects worldwide. In China, Nouryon hascarried out multiple capacity expansions at its Ningbo production base. Forexample, in 2019, it announced the completion of the doubling of the capacityof dicumyl peroxide (DCP). The DCP plant is the largest of its kind in theworld. The output is as high as 38,000 tons; in the same year, the productioncapacity of dialkyl peroxide (brand Perkadox 14) in Ningbo base increased by25%; in 2019 Nouryon also announced the increase of registered capital inShandong Boxing production base and the introduction of the world's mostadvanced surface chemicals technology. Nouryon invested 90 million euros tobuild an organic peroxide plant in Tianjin, as well as a TBHP/TBA (tert-butylhydroperoxide/tert-ButylAlcohol) production plant with a capacity of 35,000tons built at the Ningbo base. It will be completed in 2021.

• LyondellBasell Has Been Taking Money-savingMeasures

LyondellBasell has been taking money-savingmeasures such as reducing inventories and slowing capital spending, includingthe construction of a massive propylene oxide/tert-butyl alcohol plant inTexas. The company expects that 2020 capital expenditures will be down 20% fromits original estimate of $2.4 billion.

• MMA Market Will Jump

However, the MMA industry is restricted by thecapacity and operating rate of acrylonitrile. The capacity of MMA produced byacetone cyanohydrin process see slow increase. And as for the MMA produced byisobutene/tert-butyl alcohol oxidation method, Chinese producers lack maturetechnology. So, the MMA market will jump if one large unit undergoesmaintenance on the tight balance of supply and demand. 

• Lotte is the fourth largest producer of polyolefin productsin Southeast Asia by capacity in 2016

Established in 1991, Lotte is the fourthlargest producer of polyolefin products in Southeast Asia by capacity in 2016.It produces polyolefins, comprising polyethylene and polypropylene and olefins,comprising ethylene and derivatives such as butadiene, tert-butyl alcohol,benzene and toluene.

Suppliers on Tert-butyl Alcohol

√  Shouguang Hotitol Co., Ltd

Shouguang Hotitol Co.,Ltd is a mainmanufacturer of sorbitol crystalline, sorbitol syrup, maltitol crystalline anderythritol in China. We can also supply good quality maltitol syrup, mannitol,xylitol and glucose with competitive price. Our primary markets servedindustries of food, chemistry and medicine. Crystal sorbitol (granule orpowder) is mainly used as food additives for producing MINT TABLETS, CHEWINGGUM, POLYDEXTROSE (SOLUBLE DIETARY FIBRE) and the other sugarfree-foodstuff,DRIED SQUID THREAD, ROASTED FISH FILLET, SHRIMP BALL, FROZEN RAW FISH and theother frozen aquatic products.

√   ShouguangHuali Sugar Alcohol Co.,Ltd.

It is located in the "Chinese vegetablevillage" Shouguang City, Shandong Province. The main products for thegamma type liquid crystalline sorbitol and sorbitol, the gamma crystallinesorbitol annual output of more than 10 thousand tons, is one of the largestproduction in the domestic industry, the quality of the best crystal sorbitolproduction enterprises. Huali sugar alcohol has strong technical strength, fromFrance to introduce production equipment and the most advanced technology inthe world, the production of gamma crystalline sorbitol product quality to meetinternational standards.