New R&D facilities for Nynas

Nynas is investing nearly €2.7 million in new research and development facilities at the company's refinery in Nynäshamn. This investment forms part of the company's ongoing expansion in the world market for specialty oils. The new research and development lab is, in principle, a smaller version of Nynas' full-scale hydrogenation facility. Hydrogenation is one of Nynas' central processes, in which various oil distillates are purified from sulphur and aromatic hydrocarbons using hydrogen gas. Hydrogenation r
July 12, 2012 Read time: 1 min
294 Nynas is investing nearly €2.7 million in new research and development facilities at the company's refinery in Nynäshamn. This investment forms part of the company's ongoing expansion in the world market for specialty oils. The new research and development lab is, in principle, a smaller version of Nynas' full-scale hydrogenation facility. Hydrogenation is one of Nynas' central processes, in which various oil distillates are purified from sulphur and aromatic hydrocarbons using hydrogen gas. Hydrogenation results in increasingly pure oil products, an important market area as 3287 EU legislation permitting the use of environmentally sound oils in tyre manufacturing will be introduced soon.

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