RELEASED ON 16/05/13 (DD/MM/YY)

Acrylic acid (AA) producer Momentive Specialty Chemicals will restart its plant in Sokolov, Czech Republic this weekend, following a planned turnaround, a source from the company said on Wednesday. “Our turnaround is nearly done and we will be starting up this weekend again. We are in good shape,” the source said. The producer shut down one of its two AA lines, at the end of April for planned maintenance.

Momentive has the capacity to produce 55,000 tonnes of AA per year.

AA and its esters readily combine with themselves or other monomers, forming homopolymers or copolymers that are used in the manufacture of various plastics, coatings, adhesives, elastomers, floor polishes and paints.  

SOURCE Icis News