RCC to build $500m chemical plant
01 January 2017
Rufayah Chemicals Company (RCC), a Saudi downstream company, has signed a deal with Sadara Chemical Company for setting up one of the largest hydrocarbon resin plants in the world at an investment of $500 million in the PlasChem Park, a 12-sq-km industrial park at Jubail
Hydrocarbon resins are a key component in the adhesives industry, paints and coatings sector, inks manufacturing, and rubber compounded products.
Sadara’s world-scale chemical complex in Jubail Industrial City II is dedicated to downstream chemical and conversion industries. The complex will be the first in the Middle East to use refinery liquids, such as naphtha, as feedstock.
As per the deal, Sadara will supply RCC with aromatics concentrate (Pygas) and Pyoil, generated from cracking naphtha, for use in the new chemical complex.
The RCC complex will utilise the feedstock obtained from Sadara and potentially other liquid crackers in Saudi Arabia, to produce downstream chemical products such as hydrocarbon resin, isoprene, aromatic solvents, premium wash oils and other products. RCC expects to manufacture 12 products with an production capacity of more than 350 kilotonnes per annum (KTA). The complex is projected to be onstream in December 2020.
