Delamine makes solid progress due to a capacity expansion at its Delfzijl plant in the Netherlands. In short, Delamine will be the world’s largest single (EDC-based) Ethylene amines production unit.

Two years ago Delamine - an equally owned joint venture between Akzo Nobel and Japan’s Tosoh Corporation - launched a program which aim was to detect any areas which needed improvement to enhance standards. This program will be completed in 2010. It will effectively boost the total annual capacity of the plant by more than 35 percent up to 55.000 MT.

“By increasing flexibility, the company will be able to adapt to changing market circumstances more adequately,” explains Gert van der Knaap, Delamine’s Managing Director. “We needed a greater production capacity in order to grow alongside our customers and to be able to serve the global market, which is showing a healthy growth rate for most homologues.”

The production of higher Amines will be our main focal point, based on newly available technology.

By expanding our production capacity to world scale at a time when market conditions for virtually all homologues are fairly tight, Delamine is clearly demonstrating its full commitment to the ethylene amines market in general, and to the markets for Higher Amines in particular.

Delamine produces a full range of ethylene amines (lower and higher homologues) used in a wide variety of industries. For example in the manufacturing of chelating agents, epoxy curing agents, bitumen additives, paper chemicals and lubricating oil and fuel additives.