MGC Specialty Chemicals Netherlands groundbreaking ceremony

04/26/2022

Representatives from Bilfinger Tebodin and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC) attended the groundbreaking ceremony, organized by MGC Specialty Chemicals Netherlands, that took place on April 20th, 2022 in the port of Rotterdam following pure Japanese tradition.

On behalf of Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC), Bilfinger Tebodin is providing the complete EPCm scope of their new Meta-xylenediamine (MXDA) plant in Rotterdam. This new plant is in line with MGC strategy to expand its production capacity of MXDA in Europe to meet the market growth in the epoxy, polyamide and isocyanate sector. MGC is constructing a 25,000 MTA plant in Rotterdam through its newly established subsidiary MGC Specialty Chemicals Netherlands B.V. (MSCN) The new plants is scheduled to start its operation in mid-2024.

“The groundbreaking ceremony not only states the official beginning of the construction activities on site, it is also a recognition of all the hard work already done by the team on this project,” says Alexis Aimoz, Project Manager at Bilfinger Tebodin. “Over the past three years, we timely achieved major engineering milestones and I would like to thank MSCN for the trust in Bilfinger Tebodin since the beginning of this project.”