Rhodia To Build An Upstream Silica Facility In China
Joint Venture With Chinese Partners Created
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Rhodia announces the signature of a joint venture agreement with Qingdao Haiwan Group and Qingdao Dongyue sodium Silicate Company to build a sodium silicate plant at Qingdao, China. The facility with a capacity of 220,000 tonnes is scheduled to come on-stream in the first quarter of 2008.
Sodium silicate is a key intermediate for precipitated silica manufacturing. The new facility will supply Rhodia's Asian silica manufacturing plants in Qingdao, China and Incheon, South Korea, specialized in high performance silica.
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