Perstorp to Delay Plasiticizer Unit in Sweden

Perstorp (Perstorp, Sweden) says it will delay its valeraldehyde plant at its Stenungsund, Sweden facility to 2014. The company announced in 2007 it would build a plant to produce valeraldehyde and its derivatives 2-propylheptanol alcohol (2-PH), valeric acid, and a new plasticizer, di-propyl-heptyl-phthalate (DPHP) with startup expected in 2011. The site will have the capacity to produce about 150,000 m.t./year of DPHP, 2-PH, and valeric acid. The market DPHP continues to grow, and is expected to be a key mainstream high molecular weight plasticizer...

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