**Guanda and American Invada: The Feuds over the BDO Technology Package
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The BDO production capacity in China remains strong, with numerous large-scale projects being signed and implemented one after another. According to statistics, including the production capacity plans announced by companies themselves, the total amount is nearly 15 million tons. It is reported that almost all the BDO plants that have been built and are in operation in mainland China currently use the alkyne-aldehyde method, and most of the technology related to this method in China comes from Invista and Guanda. As for the lawsuit between these two companies, it is an open secret in the BDO industry.
Let’s start with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, a company based in Kansas, United States; Koch Industries is the world’s largest private corporation. Inventia’s acrolein process for BDO technology originates from DuPont in the United States; Inventia was originally a company under DuPont. On April 30, 2004, a subsidiary of the Koç Industrial Group acquired Invista from DuPont (formerly DuPont Textiles and Home Furnishings) and merged KoSa into Invista. In 2005, Cargill Industries surpassed Cargill to become the world’s largest privately held company. Inovida is currently one of the world’s largest integrated fiber and polymer companies, with operations across the globe. Its products are primarily used in applications such as nylon, spandex, and polyester, and it operates in more than 20 countries/regions.
Let’s take a look at Guanda now. **Guanda, actually Frontech Company, is headquartered in Houston, USA. The boss is a Chinese-American, Ming D. Wan. China has been able to become the largest producer of BDO, and Guanda has played a crucial role in this. Guanda’s process package is cheaper than Invidia’s, so the emergence of Guanda has broken the monopoly on this technology held by Invidia and ISP, reducing the costs for companies to implement BDO projects and enabling such projects to be implemented on a wider scale. At present, the BDO production capacity of many enterprises in our country utilizes Guanda’s process technology. Source: Huahua Net Coal Chemicals