DATE : 2015-06-08

 

French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has lifted force majeure on glacial acrylic acid (GAA) from its Carling site in France, a source from the company confirmed on Monday.

Arkema said in a letter to its customers that it was now able to resume full production of GAA on 5 June, and was also able to resume its full commitments from that date.

The GAA declaration had been made on 27 April. The cause of the outage was unconfirmed.

The force majeure on butyl acrylate (butyl-A) and 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate (2-EHA) from the same facility is still in place, but is unrelated to the recent GAA outage.

The declaration on butyl-A and 2-EHA was made on 22 May, and was announced on the back of the force majeure on oxo alcohols at Lavera a few days prior.

The force majeure on butyl-A and 2-EHA is in place for an undetermined period, a source from the company had previously said.

Arkema has the capacity to produce 276,000 tonnes/year of crude AA at its Carling site, according to ICIS data.

 

Acrylate esters include methyl acrylate (methyl-A), ethyl acrylate (ethyl-A), butyl-A and 2-EHA, and are used to make paints, coatings, textiles, adhesives, polishes and plastics.

 

SOURCE Dow Jones