SPC to start up Canadian sodium chlorite plant in Q1
05 November 2002 17:41 [Source: ICIS news]
TORONTO (CNI)--Sterling Pulp Chemicals (SPC) will start up its new sodium chlorite plant in Canada at Thunder Bay, Ontario in the first quarter of 2003, the company said Tuesday.
Sodium chlorite is a precursor in production of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant used to treat municipal drinking water and in industrial applications.
With the new plant, its second such facility in Canada, SPC will become "the leading North American and worldwide producer of sodium chlorite," SPC said in a statement.
With initial capacity of 5000 tonne/year, the Thunder Bay plant will "assure sufficient capacity" to allow municipalities to convert to chlorine dioxide disinfecting technology to meet new US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drinking water regulations, SPC said.
A second phase expansion "will be commissioned as demand requires," SPC added.
SPC already produces sodium chlorite at a Buckingham, Quebec facility, and it is a major supplier of chlorine dioxide technology.
The Toronto-based company was not immediately available for additional comment Tuesday.
SPC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Sterling Chemicals, has six manufacturing sites in Canada and the US, producing sodium chlorate and sodium chlorite.
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