14-06-2012

Solvay announced its Thai affiliate Vinythai will serve the growing Chinese epichlorohydrin market with a new production plant in Taixing, China. The plant with an initial capacity of 100,000 tons epichlorohydrin per year requires an investment of EUR 155 million and should become ...

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H2 powered industrial demonstration 1 MW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

09-02-2012

Solvay announced it has successfully commissioned its 1 MegaWatt (MW) industrial demonstration Fuel Cell at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. This Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell converts coproduced hydrogen (H2) in the plant into electricity and is now producing for weeks ...

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New world-class HP plant is serving mainly as dedicated raw material source for propylene oxide production

11-10-2011

Solvay announced that MTP HPJV (Thailand) Ltd, its hydrogen peroxide joint venture with The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), has successfully commissioned the largest hydrogen peroxide (HP) plant in the world. The production process of the new plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, is based on Solvay's ...

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27-06-2011

Solvay announced it has launched a project to build a specialty polymers production plant for SOLEF® Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), Tecnoflon® Fluoroelastomers (FKM) and their essential monomer VF2 in China to satisfy the growing demand for these high value-added specialty polymers in Asia. ...

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Solvay invests EUR 16 million in 30% stake in Chinese soda ash plant and gets direct access to the very large Chinese soda ash market

15-06-2011

Solvay announces that it has concluded an agreement with the Chinese soda ash producer Tianjin Soda Ash Plant under which Solvay will invest EUR 16 million in two steps to acquire a 30% participation in the soda ash plant built in Bin Hai near the city of Tianjin, China. Solvay will also ...

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17-12-2010

Solvay announced that it is studying the construction of an epichlorohydrin production plant in Taixing, China, with an initial capacity of 100,000 tons per year. The plant, which is expected to start producing in 2013, will be based on Solvay's Epicerol® technology. The company has already ...

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EUR 21 million investment in new capacity to satisfy surging demand

12-10-2010

Solvay announced that it has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of 2012. The plant will satisfy the growing demand for specialty polymers in China and requires ...

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29-07-2010

Solvay announced that the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved an equity investment of EUR 52 million in SolVin Holding Nederland on the 21st of July. This investment will support the construction of RusVinyl, the largest integrated ...

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Process reclaims and transforms manufacturing waste into new Select S300 sodium bicarbonate for use in pollution control solutions in the USA

10-05-2010

Solvay announced that its American affiliate Solvay Chemicals, Inc. has commissioned and brought online one of the world’s only dedicated manufacturing facilities that reclaims and transforms sodium carbonate waste streams from processed trona into a marketable grade of sodium bicarbonate. ...

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More than EUR 5 million invested in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell on hydrogen

12-02-2010

Solvay announced it will invest over EUR 5 million in the construction of a test fuel cell with a total electric power of 1 megawatt (MW) at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. The investment is part of the Project Hydrogen Region Flanders - South Netherlands. The fuel cell will ...

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