Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon are now issuing the call for tender of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to be awarded at the year end. With this scope of work, the al-Jubail MMA and PMMA project is estimated to require $500 million capital expenditure.

Of course, the selection of one technology among the others for the production of MMA has an impact on the design of the plant, thus on the FEED work provided by Tecnicas Reunidas in causing some delays.ĭespite these difficulties, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon could find a deal on this Alpha technology license, leaving Tecnicas Reunidas to complete the FEED.Īccording to this FEED, the Al-Jubail project should include two facilities with the capacities of: Unfortunately, while Tecnicas Reunidas was working on this FEED, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon had hard to finalize the conditions to adopt the Alpha technology license for this project. In January 2012, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) of the al-Jubail MMA and PMMA project to Tecnicas Reunidas (TR) from Spain in expecting to start commercial operations in 2013. Tecnicas Reunidas to complete Jubail MMA FEED work In signing this joint venture, Sabic selected the Alpha technology owned by Lucite International (Lucite) and acquired by Mitsubishi Rayon. The diversity of the processes to produce MMMA has generated over the years the multiplication of the licenses. This MMA monomer can be manufactured out of many different petrochemical processes from common building blocks such as acetone, or isobutyl or propene. Together with this MMA plant, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayonhave also decided to add a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) production unit. In May 2011, Sabic and MRC had formed a 50/50 joint venture to build at Al-Jubail, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia the world largest plant of methyl methacrylate (MMA). In August 2009, Sabic and Mitsubishi Rayon had signed a letter of intend (LOI) to prepare ground for a joint venture around the development of a major project to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer at large scale in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) and the Mitsubishi Rayon Company (MRC) are preparing the call for tender for two chemical facilities to be added in Sabic al-Jubail existing chemical plant. Sabic and MRC to build the world largest MMA plant

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