Braskem

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Braskem SA

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legal form Sociedade Anônima
Public Company (Brazil)
ISIN BRBRKMACNPA4
US1055321053 ( ADR )
founding 2002
Seat São Paulo , BrazilBrazilBrazil 
management Fernando Musa
Number of employees 8,126
sales 46.0 billion reais (7 billion euros)
Branch chemistry
Website www.braskem.com

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Braskem SA is a Brazilian company with headquarters in São Paulo . The company operates in the chemical industry. 38.32% of the shares in Braskem belong to Odebrecht , 36.13% belong to the state oil company Petrobras . Braskem employs around 8,100 people.

history

Braskem was founded back in 2002 as the largest petrochemical company in Latin America and has industrial units and offices in Brazil and a commercial base in the United States and Argentina. The company was created through the merger of six companies: Copene, OPP, Trikem Nitrocarbono, Proppet and Polialden. In 2006, Braskem acquired Polyethylene, the third largest polyethylene manufacturer in Brazil. The following year, the company Brazil's history, with Petrobras and Ultrapar joined together in the biggest merger, the three companies, the Ipiranga Group for 4 billion US dollars earned. While Petrobras and Ultrapar were jointly responsible for fuel distribution, Braskem took over Ipiranga Petrochemica, the petrochemical operation of the Ipiranga Group .

Acquisitions

On January 22, 2010, Braskem announced the full incorporation of Quattor, making the company the second largest petrochemicals company in North and South America and the eighth largest in the world. On April 1, 2010, Braskem acquired petrochemical operations from the North American company Sunoco , which increased its plastics production capacity by over 1.0 million tons. The US $ 350 million acquisition of Sunoco's propylene businesses marked the start of Braskem’s operations in the North American market. In October 2011, Braskem acquired polypropylene assets from Dow Chemical: two units in the US and two in Germany.

Braskem America is a United States manufacturer of polypropylene with five manufacturing facilities in the states of Texas, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and a technology and innovation center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Braskem America, headquartered in Philadelphia, is a subsidiary of Braskem SA

Braskem Europe, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has two plants in the cities of Schkopau and Wesseling . Braskem Europe is also a subsidiary of Braskem SA

Products

Braskem produces plastics in North and South America. With 36 industrial plants in Brazil, Germany and the USA, Braskem produces over 16 million tons of plastic and other petrochemical products annually . In addition, the company has a production capacity of 200,000 tons of polyethylene per year. The raw material required for this is made from sugar cane .

Petrochemical raw materials

Braskem controls the three largest petrochemical centers in Brazil, which are located in Camaçari (Bahia), Mauá (São Paulo) and Triunfo (Rio Grande do Sul). In addition to these three petrochemical complexes, Braskem also heads the petrochemical center in Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro), where natural gas is used as a raw material instead of naphtha . The plants supply ethylene and propylene to the company's polymer plants in the region. The company also produces numerous other chemical products, such as benzene , butadiene , toluene , xylene and isoprene . These raw materials are mainly sold to chemical product manufacturers in the region such as Elekeiroz and Dow Chemical .

Although the company's main raw material is naphtha, Braskem maintains and operates a plant for the production of ethylene from ethanol , which in turn is obtained from sugar cane. Since September 2010 “green ethylene” has been used for the production of polymers. This facility represents an important step in its strategy to become the global leader in sustainable chemistry. It is an industrial-scale production facility for bio-based polyethylene made from renewable raw material - sugar cane. The project was designed and completed in less than two years using a Braskem proprietary technology.

The industrial plant, which is located in the Triunfo petrochemical center in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, has a production capacity of 200,000 tons of bioethanol , which is converted into "green plastic" to an equivalent extent.

Polymers

Braskem is a producer of polyethylene, polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride with a production capacity of 5.7 million tons in Brazil. The company is also active in the USA with a production capacity of 1.5 million tons of polypropylene. In addition, Braskem has a production capacity of 545,000 tons of polypropylene in Germany.

The company is also in the process of implementing an integrated petrochemical complex in Mexico. The complex includes an ethane-based cracking plant and three integrated polyethylene plants with a total output of 1.05 million tons per year. The complex should start production in mid-2015. The project, which was developed in a joint venture with the Mexican company Idesa , was intended to increase the company's share of natural gas as a raw material and thus strengthen its competitiveness.

Bio-based PE production

The Brazilian company Braskem developed a process with which it can produce polyethylene on the basis of bioethanol produced by fermentation and which, according to the manufacturer, has the same chemical composition and the same properties as conventional polyethylene. The plant for the production of bio-PE was originally supposed to go into operation at the end of 2009 and has been producing bio-based polyethylene in a plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 t since 2010.

Works

Petrochemical:

  • Camaçari ( BA )
  • Duque de Caxias ( RJ )
  • Mauá ( SP )
  • Triunfo ( RS )

Chloralkali electrolysis :

PE:

PP:

PE + PP:

  • Camaçari (BA)
  • Duque de Caxias (RJ)
  • Triunfo (RS)

Bio-PE:

  • Triunfo (RS)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2015 annual report , on braskem.com (PDF 6.7 MB), accessed on August 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2014 .
  3. ^ Braskem Announces Acquisition of US Company Sunoco Chemicals , January 2, 2010.
  4. ^ Hans-Josef Endres, Andrea Siebert-Raths: Technical Biopolymers. Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-41683-3 , p. 313.
  5. ↑ Braskem starts producing bio-polyethylene . plastic processor, September 19, 2010.