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which will entail a significant expansion of the company's sulfateroute TiO 2 pigment plant at Armyansk on the Crimean peninsula. It will also entail installing additional sulfuric acid capacity and -for the first timeproducing ilmenite in its own right. Effective capacity at Armyansk is currently 60,000 tonnes/y and actual production has moved steadily nearer to this figure in recent years. Meanwhile, sulfuric acid capacity was increased by 50% to 540,000 tonnes/y in July 2004.
RSI Erste Beteiligungsgesellschaft (a German investment fund) is keen to buy a stake in Krym Titan, providing finance for the planned expansion. This same German investment fund acquired an 89.48% shareholding in the Crimean soda ash company in February 2004.
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at Jurong Island (Singapore) to 200,000 tonnes/y. Also at this location, Denki Kagaku operates a 40,000 tonnes/y unit for making Clearen styrene-butadiene block copolymer and a 60,000 tonnes/y unit for making styrene-methyl methacrylate resin.
Clariant recently completed a β¬3.8 M project to improve process efficiency at its high-performance organic pigments facilities on the Frankfurt-Hoechst site. The company installed new drying equipment designed to cut down on process times and to reduce pigment drying costs by 20%. In August 2002, Cl
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