“Formox” process for West German formaldehyde plant Available to Purchase

A new formaldehyde plant using the Formox process developed and to be licensed by the Swedish firm Perstorp AB and Reichhold Chemicals Inc, of USA, is to be built at Marl, Nordrhein West‐falen by GAF‐Hüls Chemie GmbH. The design of the plant has been chosen according to Perstorp ex‐perience and Perstorp will also have the leading part in the supply of engineering and know‐how for the plant. It will have a capacity corresponding to 70 000 tons of formaldehyde per annum calculated as 37% (26,000 tons of formaldehyde per annum calculated as 100%) for use in the production of butane‐diol, and will be the third of its kind in West Germany to be licensed for the Formox process. Fig 1 shows a similar installation at Perstorp in Sweden.