Harris & Ford set to award Iowa chlor-alkali work

06 May 2008 15:50  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--US chemical distributor Harris & Ford is expected to award the contract to build a chlor-alkali plant in Iowa next month, engineering company Conve & AVS said on Tuesday.

Alberto Gonzales, chief operating officer at Conve & AVS, said on Tuesday he was confident his company would win the contract to supply the complete plant, which would be based on INEOS technology.

Midwest Chlor-Alkali (MCA), an affiliate of Harris & Ford, will implement the project, located next to a Cargill corn milling facility in Eddyville.

The plant will have the capacity to produce about 100,000 dry short tons/year of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and 250,000 short tons/year of hydrochloric acid, according to Cargill.

The plant is scheduled to come on stream 18 months after the signing of the engineering contract, said Gonzalez.

Conve & AVS, which specialises in skid mounted chlor-alkali plants, is also in talks with MCA to operate the plant, he added.

About half the plant’s chlor-alkali output is expected to be consumed on site and at Cargill’s other corn milling plants in North America.

By: Anna Jagger
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