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Article: PHILIPPINES: Construction plans for proposed $58,000,000 high-purity fatty alcohol plant, PILIPINAS KAO INC. [Philippines/Japan] - Order #: 026405.
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- WWP-Business Opportunities in Asia & the Pacific
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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PROJECT OVERVIEW:
The local PILIPINAS KAO INC., a subsidiary of Japan-based KAO CORP., is currently gearing-up to build as new plant for the manufacture of high-purity alcohol to be used as a raw material for the production of soap and detergent. The new facility is to be built inside the firm's plant at the special economic zone in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental.
According to Haruhiko Terada, PILIPINAS KAO President & CEO, the proposed manufacturing facility will have an installed production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year of oleo chemical products particularly fatty alcohols. The project also involves the construction of alcohol fractionation ...