Evonik additional expands manufacturing capability for fuel separation membranes.
Evonik will additional broaden capability for manufacturing of its SEPURAN® hole fiber membranes in Schörfling and Lenzing, Austria. The specialty chemical compounds firm already put into operation a brand new hole fiber spinning facility in Schörfling at first of the 12 months.
On the event of at present’s ceremonial opening of this plant.
Christian Kullmann, Evonik Chief Government officer introduced the development of an additional manufacturing line:
We’re going full throttle for the inexperienced transformation and are investing a mid-double-digit million euro quantity as the following step to develop our membranes enterprise.
Building in Schörfling and Lenzing is scheduled to begin in early 2024, with completion deliberate for the primary half of 2025.
The expansion of the membrane enterprise clearly follows the Group’s technique. “We put money into modern inexperienced applied sciences that supply superior sustainability advantages to our clients,” says Kullmann. “The dynamic growth of the membrane enterprise exhibits that the inexperienced transformation is underway and that we’re taking part in a key position in it.”
By 2030, Evonik goals to extend the proportion of income generated by Subsequent Era Options to greater than 50 % from at present 43 %. Subsequent Era Options are merchandise with demonstrably superior sustainability advantages.
With membranes for the therapy of biogas and the extraction of hydrogen, for instance, Evonik is making an essential contribution to the defossilization of the vitality trade. The development in the direction of renewable vitality is driving the steadily rising demand within the membrane enterprise.
On the coronary heart of Evonik’s SEPURAN® membrane know-how are fantastic hole fibers product of a high-performance polymer specifically developed by Evonik that’s extremely immune to strain and temperature.
The upcoming capability enlargement contains building of a further plant for spinning hole fibers and the enlargement of the infrastructure essential for producing membrane modules on the Schörfling web site. The neighboring web site in Lenzing will broaden manufacturing of the required uncooked materials (high-performance plastic).
Jean-Marc Chassagne, web site supervisor mentioned:
The deliberate manufacturing enlargement for SEPURAN® membranes will create round 50 new jobs in Lenzing and Schörfling.
“The funding strengthens the positioning’s significance on worldwide markets. With the modern know-how from Higher Austria, Evonik is driving the worldwide transformation towards a sustainable fuel economic system.”
Evonik’s manufacturing in Schörfling on the Attersee is already powered solely by renewable vitality. Nothing however inexperienced electrical energy from wind, hydropower, or biomass fuels the manufacturing facility for SEPURAN® membranes. Because the starting of 2022, the specialty chemical compounds firm can be overlaying one hundred pc of its fuel necessities with biomethane from regional manufacturing.
By switching to environmentally pleasant vitality, Evonik is lowering its direct CO2 emissions in Higher Austria by round 5,000 metric tons a 12 months.
Because the first merchandise had been introduced in 2011, Evonik has steadily developed the SEPURAN® membranes enterprise. Inside twelve years, it turned a globally acknowledged know-how chief for environment friendly fuel separation. To this point, Evonik has equipped membranes to greater than 1,000 reference crops worldwide for the biogas market alone.
SEPURAN® hole fiber membranes can separate gases akin to methane (CH4), nitrogen (N2), and hydrogen (H2) notably effectively from fuel mixtures. The benefit of Evonik’s membrane know-how lies within the extra exact separation of gases and in larger productiveness. SEPURAN® N2 membranes for environment friendly nitrogen manufacturing are used, for instance, for inerting plane tanks.
SEPURAN® Noble membranes extract the hydrogen transported by way of the pure fuel pipelines from the CH4/H2 fuel combination selectively on the H2 take-off factors. SEPURAN® NG membranes allow environment friendly pure fuel processing from sources with excessive CO2 focus. SEPURAN® Inexperienced membranes allow environment friendly biogas upgrading from natural and round substrates.
COMPANY INFORMATION
Evonik is among the world leaders in specialty chemical compounds. The corporate is energetic in additional than 100 international locations world wide and generated gross sales of €18.5 billion and an working revenue (adjusted EBITDA) of €2.49 billion in 2022. Evonik goes far past chemistry to create modern, worthwhile, and sustainable options for patrons. About 34,000 workers work collectively for a standard function: We wish to enhance life at present and tomorrow.
ABOUT SMART MATERIALS
The Sensible Supplies division contains companies with modern supplies that allow resource-saving options and substitute typical supplies. They supply good solutions to at present’s main challenges: the setting, urbanization, vitality effectivity, mobility and well being. In fiscal 2022, the Sensible Supplies division generated professional forma gross sales of €4.83 billion with round 7,900 workers.
DISCLAIMER
In as far as forecasts or expectations are expressed on this press launch or the place our statements concern the long run, these forecasts, expectations or statements might contain identified or unknown dangers and uncertainties. Precise outcomes or developments might differ, relying on adjustments within the working setting. Neither Evonik Industries AG nor its group corporations assume an obligation to replace the forecasts, expectations or statements contained on this launch.
Highlights:
- Group invests mid-double-digit million euro quantity in Schörfling and Lenzing in Austria
- Demand for sustainable membranes pushed by renewable vitality
- Completion of the brand new crops scheduled for the primary half of 2025
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Evonik additional expands manufacturing capability for fuel separation membranes, Schörfling/Lenzing, Austria, October 5, 2023
