Petrochemical maker Ineos has submitted plans to build a new vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) production facility at the Saltend Chemical Park in Hull, the UK. The new 300,000 tons/year plant will replace the older plant that Ineos closed in 2019. Ineos bought the old facility in 2008 from BP, which established the plant in the late 1990s. Ineos said the new plant would double the workforce to 80. The project will also open construction jobs and help local businesses.
VAM is a key building block in the production of paints, windscreens, films, adhesives, and PVC. The new production facility will receive feedstock ethylene through a pipeline from Grangemouth. A BP plant at Saltend will also provide the new facility with other important raw material, acetic acid. Ineos also operates an ethyl acetate production facility at Saltend.
