# Avantium to build FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl

Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to build a 5-kiloton FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl in the Netherlands. The facility will produce plant-based FDCA, a key building block for chemicals and plastics like PEF.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-01-08
- Where: Delfzijl, Netherlands, Netherlands
- Value: $33.0M (30.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2023
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 5 kilotons per year
- Products: FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid), PEF (polyethylene furanoate)
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Avantium](https://endata.com/companies/7773.md)
- [Avantium Renewable Polymers](https://endata.com/companies/8861.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [newsroom.avantium.com](https://newsroom.avantium.com/avantium-to-build-fdca-flagship-plant-at-chemie-park-delfzijl-netherlands/), 2020-01-08: "Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avantium Renewable Polymers, has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands."

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