Variable Costs

Novomer’s technology has a significant variable cost advantage over the current acrylic acid technology in the US Gulf Coast (USGC), the Middle East, and other regions of the world. In 2009 Novomer’s advantage was as great as 30% in the USGC and over 50% in the Middle East. It is expected that this cost advantage is going to continue going forward because petrochemical industry fundamentals are causing the propylene to ethylene ratio to increase.

Capital Expense Advantages

Preliminary process design work suggests that Novomer’s route to acrylic acid has the potential to require $100M less capital expense to build than the current propylene oxidation technology. Most of the cost savings is attributable to the standard reactors that can be used with the Novomer process as compared to the very complex and sophisticated reactors required for the propylene oxidation process.


Novomer's route to acrylic acid has the potential to require $100 million less in capital expense than traditional propylene oxidation technology