Prayon-Rupel to build new STPP plant and extends sodium hydrosulphite jv

23 July 1997 17:09  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (CNI)--Belgian group Société Chimique Prayon-Rupel is to build a sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) plant in Morocco and extending its sodium hydrosulphite actitivities into North America.

Prayon-Rupel is forming a 50:50 joint venture with Moroccan company Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) to build a 50 000 tonne/year STPP plant at Jorf Lasfar. The plant, which will cost $30m-$35m to build, is due on stream toward the end of 1999. It will be capable of being rapidly expanded to 100 000 tonne/year, the companies said.

OCP is a 50% shareholder in Prayon-Rupel, the other half being held by the Société Régionale d'Investissement de Wallonie.

Prayon and OCP are currently building a 130 000 tonne/year purified phosphoric acid plant at Jorf Lasfar, in collaboration with the German company Chemische Fabrik Budenheim.

Meanwhile, Prayon-Rupel's Silox joint venture with French industrial investor Silar has bought a 51% interest in the Canadian company Hydro Technologies, based in Sainte-Foy, Québec. The company makes 5 000 tonne/year sodium hydrosulphite and 3 000 tonne/year zinc oxides. Prayon-Rupel plans to expand the plant, saying these capacities can easily be duplicated.

By: Grace Williams
+44 208 652 3214

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