Oxea to increase production capacities in Texas, with optimized processes  

The chemical company Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has developed several innovative continuous processes to expand its production at its site in Bishop, Texas, USA. The optimizations will add significant further volume, beyond the already announced capacity increases for potassium formate and trimethylolpropane (TMP). Potassium formate is used, among other applications, as a component in well-servicing fluids for the extraction of oil and gas and for de-icing. TMP is a widely used building block for polymers, especially in polyesters and polyurethanes, but is also used in a plethora of other areas, such as, for example, synthetic lubricants. “Our production site in Bishop is of great importance to our polyols, which constitute a significant part of Oxea’s Derivatives portfolio. These products have a very diversified range of uses in manufacturing industries and we market the portfolio worldwide,” said Miguel Mantas, member of Oxea’s Executive Board and responsible for Marketing and Sales. “Over the course of the last years, we were able to continuously use excellent initiatives such as this one — not only to expand capacity and increase the onstream reliability of the units,…