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Article: Solvay Buys Into Phosacid Process.(EcoPhos)(Brief Article)
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- Chemical Week
- Article date:
- April 19, 2001
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SOLVAY HAS PURCHASED A 15% STAKE IN START-UP COMPANY ECOPHOS (Louvain la Neuve, Belgium), which says it has invented a low-cost route to food-grade phosphoric acid, sodium phosphates, and other phosphate salts used in agricultural and industrial applications. The EcoPhos "rock attack" process uses wet phosphoric acid to convert phosphate rock and hydrochloric acid (HCI) into phosphates.
Solvay has agreed to assist EcoPhos in constructing and operating a pilot plant to test the process at Dombasle, France site. Solvay manufactures HCI at the site. The pilot unit ...