Goodyear Chemical expands ultra high purity dicyclopentadiene capacity

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced that it has completed the de-bottlenecking of its world-scale Ultra High Purity Dicyclopentadiene (UHP-DCPD) Recovery Unit at its chemical plant in Beaumont, Texas.

 

The DCPD concentration unit was constructed in late 2016 to purify DCPD up to the 99+ percent purity levels. The Goodyear-Beaumont facility has been refining crude C5s into High Purity Isoprene monomer, Piperylenes and DCPD since the 1970s.

 

Ultra High Purity DCPD is used in the manufacturing of Reaction Injection Molded poly-DCPD tractor truck fascia, hoods, fenders and air deflectors. It is also used to manufacture specialty chemicals such as time release fertilizer coatings, thermoset electrical circuit boards, aroma chemicals for laundry detergents and antioxidants. UHP-DCPD is also used to make EPDM rubber and ENB, a diene monomer in EPDM.