OQ Chemicals
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OQ Chemicals (formerly OXEA) is the second largest manufacturer of Oxo Intermediates and Oxo Derivatives globally by production capacity, with total production capacity of over 1.2 million tons per annum. Oxea is the number one producer of Oxo Intermediates and Derivatives for the merchant market globally. OQ aims to become a global leading energy company and offers a diversified product mix, including energy, polymers, and oxo chemicals.
OQ Chemicals is the inventor of the Oxo process as well as of several proprietary technologies for the manufacture of Oxo chemicals. Oxea benefits from highly integrated production facilities and a well-balanced value chain in Oxo Intermediates and Oxo Derivatives. The flexible production process allows Oxea to manage the production flow carefully and react to short term demand patterns for key products. This enables Oxea to optimize the allocation of our production capacity to manufacture the most commercially attractive products at any given time.
The product offering consists of more than 60 products that OQ provides to customers in a wide range of industries for many varied end market applications, including construction, automotive, consumer goods, healthcare and agrochemicals industries, as well as for further uses in the chemicals industry. These products are used in a wide range of applications, including coatings, lubricants and plasticizers. As a result, OQ is not overly exposed to end-market specific cycles.
Since December 2013 OQ Chemicals is part of Oman Oil Company (OOC).
Since Q2 2020 Oxea has officially changed its corporate name to OQ Chemicals as a token of its final integration into the newly formed energy company OQ. Complementing the name change is a new corporate identity, reflecting the potential of the group,
The main operating companies are OQ Chemicals GmbH, a German limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung), organized under the laws of Germany, and OQ Chemicals Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.
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OQ Chemicals Starts up Expanded Production Facility for TCD Alcohol DM at Oberhausen, Germany
The company has thus significantly expanded its global production capacity for TCD Alcohol DM. The new volume will gradually become available in the global market, and OQ Chemicals has already star...
Oxea to Expand Global Production Capacity for TCD Alcohol
Oxea has decided to further expand its production capacities for TCD Alcohol in Oberhausen, Germany to meet market demand. The additional capacity to be available by the second half of 2021.
Oxea Expands its Production Network and Builds new Plant for Carboxylic Acids in Oberhausen,Germany
The new unit is the sixth of its kind in Oxea’s global production network. Once brought on stream by the end of 2021, it will double the current production capacity for isononanoic acid and increas...
Oxea Increases Isononanoic Acid Production Capacity at Oberhausen, Germany
Oxea completed a debottleneck of its isononanoic acid production units in Oberhausen, Germany, and will use the additional production capacity to support the growth of the global synthetic lubrican...
Oxea plans capacity increase for plasticizer Oxsoft GPO
Oxea is planning to increase its European capacity for Oxsoft GPO (Dioctyl Terephthalate - DOTP) by 50,000 metric tons by Q4/2015.
Oxea increases capacity for specialty esters at Amsterdam plant
The chemical company Oxea announced today that it has successfully increased its capacity by 20 percent for specialty esters at its Amsterdam Esters Plant (AEP). To this end, the company invested a...