MOSCOW (MRC) -- Solvay Silica has launched production of highly dispersible silica (HDS) at its new plant in Wloclawek, Poland, reported GV.
With 85,000 t of annual capacity the plant will serve customers in Central and Eastern Europe and will create more than 100 jobs in the region.
The site will produce Solvay’s latest HDS brands, including Zeosil Premium and Efficium, which allow for higher productivity and greater flexibility in producing energy saving passenger car and truck tyre compounds and can reduce a vehicle’s fuel consumption by as much as 7%.
With Wloclawek, Solvay Silica says it now operates nine production sites across Europe, South America, North America and Asia. In addition, the company is currently building its tenth HDS plant in the South Korean city of Gunsan, which will have an annual capacity of 80,000 t and will also produce Efficium. The plant is expected to be operational in the next two years.
As MRC informed before, in April 2015, Solvay created a new Global Business Unit that will integrate the GBUs Rare Earth Systems and Special Chemicals as well as the Fluorine Business of GBU Aroma Performance. The new GBU Special Chem with annual sales of about EUR850 million and 3,100 employees worldwide in 2014 will be led by Hua Du and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea and will be reported within the Advanced Materials Operating Segment.
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company founded in 1863, with its head office in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. The company has diversified into two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics. Solvay supplies over 1500 products across 35 brands of high-performance polymers пїЅ fluoropolymers, fluoroelastomers, fluorinated fluids, semi-aromatic polyamides, sulfone polymers, aromatic ultra polymers, high-barrier polymers and cross-linked high-performance compounds.
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