MOSCOW (MRC) -- Solvay has started hydrogen peroxide production at its new plant in Zhenjiang, China, as per the company's press release.
This plant has a capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year and will meet the growing local customer demand for high quality products in addition to supplying demand from Solvay’s own businesses in the semi-conductor and flavor industries.
Solvay’s Peroxides Global Business Unit (GBU) built the plant in Solvay’s chemical manufacturing platform located within Zhenjiang Green Chemical & New Material Industry Park. The platform already hosts two other Solvay GBUs, allowing all businesses at the site to benefit from shared infrastructure, logistics and services. The plant is the first in China to use Solvay Peroxide’s innovative, world leading technology with improved efficiency, while further promoting sustainability in operations by significantly reducing effluents and energy usage.
The plant will serve the increasing local demand primarily for high-concentration and high-quality grades of hydrogen peroxide used in demanding applications within the chemical, electronics, water treatment and aquaculture industries. A significant portion of the plant’s capacity will also supply growing demand from Solvay's GBUs Aroma Performance and Special Chem.
"From this new efficient production platform we can support the strong and growing demand in China for premium hydrogen peroxide grades and extend our innovative offerings to our customers, increasingly in high-end sectors which have been emerging in the local markets over the past few years," said Georges Crauser, President of Solvay's Peroxides GBU.
Solvay’s network of hydrogen peroxide manufacturing plants now totals 16 worldwide, lifting its overall capacity and further consolidating its global industry leadership.
As MRC reported before, in June 2016, Solvay completed the purchase of Eastman Chemical Company's share in their former US joint venture Primester. As the sole owner of the cellulose acetate flake plant, Solvay secured the most economical long term supply for its own tow businesses while adapting capacity to demand. Eastman will provide the long-term supply of basic utilities and raw materials to the Kingsport, Tennessee-based plant.
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company founded in 1863, with its head office in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium and about 30,900 employees spread across 53 countries. 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 - fluoropolymers, fluoroelastomers, fluorinated fluids, semi-aromatic polyamides, sulfone polymers, aromatic ultra polymers, high-barrier polymers and cross-linked high-performance compounds. Solvay generated pro forma net sales of EUR12.4 bn in 2015, with 90% made from activities where it ranks among the world’s top 3 players.
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