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Article: Akzo Nobel hikes chlorine at Botlek; relocates MCAA production.(new construction projects)(monochloroacetic acid)
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- Chemical Week
- Article date:
- February 4, 2004
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Akzo Nobel is planning to add 100,000 m.t./year of chlorine capacity at its Botlek complex near Rotterdam, the Netherlands, CW has learned. The expansion is due to be completed in mid-2005, and it should raise the total at the site to 570,000 m.t./year. "We are expecting the environmental permits and board approval for the project in the second quarter," says Rene Scheffers, president/base chemicals. The project will cost about 40 million [euro] ($50 million), and will use Asahi Kasei membrane cell technology, Scheffers says. Engineering will be carried out in-house, he says.
The project is part of a major restructuring of Akzo's chlorine manufacturing, and ...
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