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AkzoNobel starts-up Ningbo plant

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

AkzoNobel has started production at its €275 million chelates facility located in Ningbo, China. The start-up of the Ningbo facility means that AkzoNobel is now the only major producer of chelates with plants in Europe, North America and Asia. New ethylene amines and ethylene oxide factories are also due to begin production at the site in 2010, followed by an organic peroxides facility. The new plant, which will help to optimize the company’s global supply chain, will produce most of the basic chelates in AkzoNobel’s Dissolvine product range.

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