Mitsubishi to commercialise process for making butadiene from butene

ERJ staff report (DS)

Tokyo -- Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. has developed a technology to manufacture butadiene from butenes using proprietary catalyst and examined it at a pilot plant in its Mizushima Plant in Japan. MCC has received a firm prospect to industrialise the new production technology and plans to produce the process design package within the next year.

The largest single use for butadiene is in the production of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) which is principally used in the manufacture of tyres. The demand for butadiene has expanded recently. MCC?s new production technology will enable butadiene supplying capacity to meet the rising demand for all butadiene-related products.

MCC has positioned butadiene-based C4 chemicals business such as 1, 4-butandiol and its derivatives as one of the existing growth businesses in the growth strategy, and plans to further strengthen this business through the application of the new butadiene production technology.

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Press release from MCC