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Our Research Centre aims to improve production processes, enabling produc- tion to be maximised or new products to be generated, always meeting the prin- ciples of sustainability, energy efficiency and minimising consumption of resources and generation of waste and discharges.

In 2017, we implemented several re- search projects, including:

Catalyst selection project, to optimise production cycles and the sulphur and benzene reduction phases in our products.

Project NewDetal, through which we will test the technical feasibility of uti- lising different by-products of kerosene from those already used to produce partially biodegradable sulfonates with detergent properties.

Project Cumene, around which a new R&D area has been created in the Re- search Centre. It enables the evalua- tion of alternative technologies for the production of Cumene, a compound derived from the alkylation of benzene with propylene, based on the selection of a catalytic alternative that can opti- mise the process and position us ver- sus major competitors.

bottom of the barrel project, active since the previous year, and in which this year progress has been made in the analysis of waste generated by the process and its stability, as well as op- timisation of the processes to launch production of IFO380 by 2020.

R&D PROJECTS

2017 ANNUAL AND CORPORATE RESPONSIbILITy REPORT