AdvanSix
AdvanSix is an American chemical company that comprised Honeywell's Resins and Chemicals division, and it traces its lineage to the H. W. Jayne Company, established 1884 in Frankford, Pennsylvania.[1] It was spun-off from Honeywell in 2016.[2]
AdvanSix has plants in Chesterfield and Hopewell, Virginia, and Frankford and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The Hopewell plant is one of the world's largest single-site producer of caprolactam.[3] It reports an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of ammonia and 400,000 tons of caprolactam.[4] For context, global annual demand for caprolactam is estimated at 5 million tons.[5]
AdvanSix is an integrated chemical manufacturer. It produces phenol in Frankford through the cumene process, where it is converted to caprolactam in Hopewell, polymerized to nylon 6 in Chesterfield and made into film at Pottsville.[6] In addition to internal use, AdvanSix sells acetone, phenol, and alpha-methylstyrene from the cumene process. They sell cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone made from phenol, caprolactam, as well as ammonium sulfate generated by the Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime.[7]
References
- ^ "History". AdvanSix. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
- ^ "Honeywell to spin off its $1.3 billion resins and chemicals business". Reuters. 2016-05-12.
- ^ "Hopewell, Virginia". AdvanSix. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
- ^ "AdvanSix Provides Operational Update on Its Fourth Quarter 2016 Plant Turnaround" (Press release). AdvanSix. 2016-10-31.
- ^ Josef Ritz; Hugo Fuchs; Heinz Kieczka; William C. Moran. "Caprolactam". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a05_031.pub2. ISBN 978-3527306732.
- ^ "Integrated Production". AdvanSix. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
- ^ "Chemical Intermediates: Products". AdvanSix. Retrieved 2017-09-23.