Brunner Mond builds second UK sodium bicarb plant

11 June 2007 16:53  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Brunner Mond will invest £10m (€14.7m/$19.7m) in building a new 50,000 tonne/year sodium bicarbonate plant at its Northwich East site in Cheshire, UK, the company announced on 11 June.

 

The facility, which was due to be commissioned in the first half of 2009, would be Brunner Mond’s third sodium bicarbonate plant in Europe, and would bring the company’s combined production capacity to 180,000 tonnes/year.

 

In addition to its existing plant at Northwich West, Brunner Mond recently commissioned a 50,000 tonne/year facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, at a cost of £10m.

 

“Our plans for Briskarb have met an enthusiastic response from the marketplace and we are confident that this new facility will allow us to become a major participant in the development of more efficient and effective emissions-control solutions,” said Brunner Mond sodium bicarbonate business director John Melia.

 

Brunner Mond has developed its Briskarb brand of sodium bicarbonate specifically for flue gas treatment.

 

Apart from its sodium bicarbonate plants, Brunner Mond operates a 300,000 tonne/year sodium carbonate (soda ash) plant in Magadi, Kenya. Sodium bicarbonate is a derivative of soda ash.

 

The company is owned by India-based Tata Chemicals Ltd, which is the third largest producer of sodium bicarbonate in the world.

($1 = £0.51)

 

By: Samuel Weatherlake
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