Demand and capacity

According to statistics, BP, Sasol and Shell's total production capacity of the European IPA was 424,010 tons in 2001, Western Europe sales was nearly 366,000 tons, and export 46,000 tons in 2001. Annual growth rate of Europe needs was 1% to 2%, it is expected that the growth will be higher in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. IPA have a great potential for the production of derivatives, the growth of being used as a solvent is little or no.

 

The world's total production capacity is more than 2.42 million tons per year. Domo and Mitsui Chemicals built solvent (including IPA) combination unit of 80,000 tons per year in Germany Luna, and put into production in 2004.