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SUSTAINABLE SYNTHETIC RUBBERS
OMV and Synthos to enable production of sustainable

butadiene

OMV, the energy, chemicals &
materials company headquartered in
Vienna, Austria, and Synthos, the biggest
synthetic rubber producer in Europe,
have signed a Memorandum of Under-
standing (MoU), under which the two
will cooperate on the supply of sustain-
able raw materials to manufacture syn-
thetic rubbers.

OMV and Synthos have commit-
ted to a long-term cooperation on sus-
tainable butadiene until 2030, initially
using palm fatty acid distillate and used future cooperation on circular buta- tainable chemical feedstocks will in-
cooking oil as raw materials. Sustain- diene, based on pyrolysis oil from end- crease to approximately 300,000 tonnes
able butadiene will be produced in of-life tyres through a chemical degrada- by 2030,” said Ms. Daniela Vlad, Exe-
OMV’s steam cracker at the Burghausen tion process at very high temperatures. cutive Vice President Chemicals and
refinery in Germany, which received Materials at OMV.
full ISCC PLUS certification in March “We have a strategic goal to become
2022. A first batch of sustainable buta- a leading European producer of sus- Synthos will use the butadiene to
diene was successfully delivered to tainable feedstocks for chemicals pro- produce Solution Styrene-Butadiene
Synthos in 2023. duction at our integrated refineries in Rubber (S-SBR), used in high perfor-
Schwechat, Austria, and Burghausen. mance tyre tread compounds for low
Furthermore, the MoU facilitates At these sites, the production of sus- rolling resistance.

ETHYLENE GLYCOL PRODUCTION
SABIC, Scientific Design & Linde to jointly explore

decarbonisation opportunities in EO/MEG

SABIC, a global leader in the chemi- proprietary CO technology
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cals industry, Scientific Design (SD), an has already demonstrated
affiliate company and licensing leader its effectiveness in the
in ethylene glycol (EG) technology and world’s largest carbon cap-
Linde Engineering, a subsidiary of Linde, ture and utilisation (CCU)
a leading global industrial gases and plant at SABIC affiliate,
engineering company, have entered into a United.
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
to explore collaboration opportunities to The technology has the
decarbonise the SD EG process. capacity to recover and
purify up to 500-ktpa of
This collaboration will offer worldwide with the ultimate goal of CO , which can be converted into
2
SABIC’s CO recovery and purification establishing sustainable ethylene oxide urea, methanol, or liquefied for use
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technology to SD-licensed EG plants (EO) and EG production. SABIC’s in the food & beverage industry.

Chemical Weekly December 26, 2023 159

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