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MOSCOW (MRC)
-- WeylChem (Frankfurt, Germany), the fine chemicals platform of International
Chemical Investors Group (ICIG; Luxembourg), says it is investing to build a
production facility for aromatic-ring chlorination at the group's
Frankfurt-Hochst site, said Chemweek.
The
start of production at the new facility is planned for the first quarter of
2022, the company says. Further details have not been disclosed. The facility
will strengthen the company’s capabilities in side-chain chlorination and expand
them to aromatic-ring chlorination for the specialty chemicals market, meeting
the growing demand in Europe for local and resilient supply chains, the company
says.
WeylChem will also establish a sustainable production cycle with
the new plant, in which 4-chlorobenzotrichloride, a by-product of side-chain
chlorination, will be refined to 2, 3, 4, 5-tetrachlorobenzoyl chloride and no
longer need to be disposed of, the company says. With all the other by-products
being refined or sold, the side-chain chlorination will reduce the company's
waste footprint significantly, it says.
It will also enable Weylchem to
backward integrate and install its own proprietary supply chain to use these
products in its halogen exchange multipurpose plant at Allessa in
Frankfurt-Fechenheim, the company says.
As per MRC, Clariant, a world
leader in specialty chemicals, announced the
closing of the sale of its Detergents and Intermediates business to
International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG). The total consideration of
the sale amounts to CHF 58 million, out of which CHF 20 million in cash became
due at closing. Worldwide, 660 employees were transferred from Clariant to the
new ICIG business, which from now on will operate under the WeylChem brand
umbrella.
As MRC informed earlier,
October production of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) were 109,000 tonnes (100%
of the basic substance) versus 108,000 tonnes a month earlier. Overall output of
caustic soda totalled 1,054,600 tonnes in the first ten months of 2020, down by
1.6% year on year. |
