Invista announced that construction on the adiponitrile (ADN) retrofit project at INVISTA’s site in Victoria, Texas, continues on schedule with one of the modified process areas nearing completion.

The company anticipates that all pre-turnaround construction will be completed later this year, and the final tie-ins are to be installed during a regularly scheduled maintenance outage in early 2021 with additional ADN coming online at that time.

The retrofit, announced in 2017, will allow the Victoria facility to employ a new Invista process that provides higher ADN product yields while lowering energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and capital intensity than the current process. First scaled up at Invista’s Orange, Texas, facility, the technology has also been deployed at the Chalampe, France, site of Butachimie, Invista’s joint venture with BASF, and it will be implemented in Invista’s new 400,000 metric tons/year ADN project in Shanghai, China, which broke ground earlier this month.

ADN is a key ingredient for nylon 6,6 fibers and plastics used in industries like automotive production, electronics and electrical connectors. Applications also include automotive airbag fiber, specialty apparel fibers and high-performance coatings.