Kemira has invested close to 8 million euros in its Pori,
Finland plant for expanding its manufacture of specialty anatase products and for a new packaging system. The investments will be completed in December 2004.
Kemira Pigments in Pori is part of the Kemira
industrial chemicals Strategic Business Unit. Harri Kerminen, Executive Vice President of the Unit, regards the investments as a significant support to Pigments' strategic policy.
- The investments in the specialty products business are in accordance with Pigments' strategy, says Kerminen. One of the central objectives of the strategy is to be the global leader and supplier of
titanium dioxide products in selected product application areas, such as in the
cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and
food industries.
The expansion involves investing in new production machinery and a new packaging machine system. New facilities, separate from the rest of production, will be built for these purposes.
- Demands concerning the purity of products supplied to the food and drug industry, for example, are constantly being tightened, affirms Olli-Pekka Antinluoma, Vice President of the Specialty Products Unit. With the aid of these investments, we can guarantee the required level of product purity also in the future.
Titanium dioxide pigments, the main product manufactured at Kemira Pigments, are used mainly as a raw material in paints, printing inks,
plastics and paper. Kemira Pigments' specialty products are sold especially to the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, plastics and printing inks industries.