Specialty chemical company, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has announced its plans to build an ethoxylation plant in Dayabay, situated south of Guangzhou. The plant will be operational in early 2011 and will have a capacity of close to 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr).
The new plant will primarily serve domestic customers for a broad range of applications, including crop protection, construction, industrial and home care, metal working, textile and paper. Ethoxylation is a key technology for Clariant that the company has developed over the past 50 years. With production sites in Europe, North America and Latin America, Dayabay will be Clariant’s first ethoxylation plant in Asia.
The construction of this new facility is part of a $100-million-investment program in China, which Clariant has been committed to over the last 18 months. This program includes a plant in Hangzhou for Quinacridone specialty organic pigments, a phosphorus pentoxide plant in Kunming, as well as a new Masterbatches plant and Archroma Center for textiles in Guangzhou. Clariant’s new surfactants production facility, which will be inaugurated in Zhenjiang, Eastern China this week, is another milestone in the program.
Clariant plans new ethoxylation plant in China
| By Dorothy Lozowski