Canada’s SPC, Finnish chem firms to build new CIO2 unit
31 May 2002 20:39 [Source: ICIS news]
TORONTO (CNI)--Canada’s Sterling Pulp Chemicals (SPC) and three Finnish chemicals makers have teamed up to rebuild and operate a chlorine dioxide (CIO2) facility at a pulp and paper mill in Kotka, Finland, officials announced Friday.
In a statement SPC said the turnkey Kotka facility will be built for Finnish pulp and paper company Sunila Oy.
It will run on SPC’s chlorine dioxide technology and replace a 20-year old facility that uses sulphur dioxide as a reducing agent there.
Said SPC: "Chlorine dioxide is the environmentally preferred chemical used in the bleaching of chemical pulp."
Chlorine dioxide is made from sodium chlorate.
Sunila will outsource the facility’s operation to SPC and its partners, the statement said.
SPC’s partners are Finnchem Europe, Finnish Peroxides and Finnish chemicals major Kemira.
Finnchem will supply the sodium chlorate to the Sunila plant. Finnish Peroxides, an affiliate of Belgium’s Solvay, will supply hydrogen peroxide while Kemira will deliver the sulphuric acid.
The statement did not disclose the budgeted investment costs, capacities or the expected completion date.
Commented SPC president Paul Timmons: "This partnership is an important step in Sterling’s growth strategy because it enables us to better serve the European pulp and paper industry."
Toronto-based SPC, an arm of Houston-based Sterling Chemicals, is a leading global supplier of chlorine dioxide technology and North America’s largest supplier of sodium chlorate. The company has five manufacturing facilities in Canada and one in the US.
By: Stefan Baumgarten
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