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Article: Dow Corning acquires Metals Unit from Solvay.(Companhia Brasileira Carbureto de Calcio)(Brief Article)
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- Chemical Week
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Dow Corning has acquired Solvay's silicon metals subsidiary Companhia Brasileira Carbureto de Calcio (CBCC; Rio de Janeiro). CBCC has capacity for 40,000 m.t./year of silicon metal and 20,000 m.t./year of ferrosilicon alloys at Santos Dumont, Brazil.
Dow Corning plans to convert the facilities to produce a total of 60,000 m.t./year of silicon metals by 2003, says Jim May, Dow Corning global procurement director/silicon. Dow Corning has ...