Fungi, yeasts and bacteria produce active ingredients for laundry and home care products

• Book ID: 104390370
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4210
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4210(10)70258-4

✦ Synopsis

to Halifax and accompanying investments will generate additional synergies and bring about the critical mass for new growth projects, it says. At the same time, to meet increasing demand from its North American customers, Rhodia will launch an investment programme at the University Park facility in Illinois to upgrade and increase surfactant production capacities in the region. Capitalizing on the development and optimization of its industrial footprint, Rhodia aims to strengthen the group's leading positions in the speciality surfactants business across a range of markets, including home & personal care, oilfield, industrial and agrochemicals. Rhodia Novecare president, Emmanuel Butstraen commented: 'Eighteen months after the acquisition of McIntyre, we have successfully integrated the business and are delivering the expected synergies. To leverage these achievements and take advantage of the potential offered by the surfactants market, we are boosting the competitiveness of our sites as well as investing in the long term'.