Kemira Oyj (Helsinki; www.kemira.com) has announced the completion of the company’s new Nanjing production base. The Nanjing plant is located in the Nanjing Chemical Park, Jiangsu Province. Kemira’s already completed and future investments into the plant will amount to approximately$ 100 million in an area of 77,000㎡. It will provide a wide range of functional and process chemicals for water-intensive industries, including the paper industry. The estimated capacity is 100,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The first phase operations provide nearly 100 jobs for the local community. After the ground breaking in September, 2011, the construction was completed in August 2013, and the production started in the end of 2013.
Kemira’s new plant is focused on the Asian market, China in particular. Production will be mainly serving the paper industry, while at the same time providing products and services to the oil & mining industry and municipal water treatment. Currently there are five production lines serving across an array of chemical products for pulp and paper manufacturing. The production capacity for sizing agent (ASA), which mainly used for improving water-resistance in middle to high end paper, will be the largest in Asia.
Besides ASA products, the new plant also produces polyacrylic ester, polyacrylamide emulsion, defoamers, and deinking agents, all of which are widely applied in key paper manufacturing processes.