Evonik Oil Additives to expand capacity in Asia-Pacific
16 May 2012 – Evonik Oil Additives, a world leader in lubricants and bio-fuels additive technologies, has announced plans to significantly expand Asia-Pacific production capacity. The additional Asia-Pacific capacity will almost double current capacity and is expected to be fully realized in 2015.
“As we listen to and respond to the needs of our customers in Asia, it’s clear that we must build significant additional capacity to meet their demand for our products,” explains Norbert Westerholt, managing director of the Oil Additives business line of Evonik Industries
It was in 2008 that Evonik Oil Additives completed construction of its current Singapore facility with an objective of better serving customers in the fastgrowing Asian lubricants market. Now, only four years later, the company is aiming to expand AsiaPacific capacity by nearly 100 percent. The expansion will increase capacity across Evonik Oil Additive’s entire portfolio of products currently produced for the Asian market. From its current production location in Singapore, the Evonik Oil Additives business line ships lubricant additive products to customers throughout Asia, with the largest volumes going to China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia and India.
The expansion has been designed to include some significant process improvements to assure operation at the highest levels of safety, efficiency, productivity and quality. “The process improvements we incorporate into the expansion will provide additional flexibility and responsiveness to customer needs, and are designed to prepare us for continued growth as well as for the integration of new technical developments,” Westerholt adds.
The Evonik Oil Additives business line of Evonik Industries specializes in high-performance additives for lubricants and refinery products based on polyalkyl methacrylates (PAMAs). Their specially customized VISCOPLEX™ grades allow the flow abilities, lubricating performance, and crystallization properties of lubricants and biodiesel to be optimized over wide temperature ranges. Energy-efficient hydraulic systems from Evonik Oil Additives using its DYNAVIS™ hydraulic fluid technology save fuel, thereby reducing CO2 emissions into the environment.
Company information
Evonik, the creative industrial group from Germany, is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals. Its activities focus on the key megatrends health, nutrition, resource efficiency and globalization. Evonik benefits specifically from its innovative prowess and integrated technology platforms. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal 2011 more than 33,000 employees generated sales of around €14.5 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.8 billion.
