US: Huber & Kaoclay/Sparta – kaolin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 2004
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-6210
• DOI: 10.1016/s0969-6210(04)00402-3

✦ Synopsis

US: Degussa -precipitated silica

Degussa's Advanced Fillers & Pigments business unit is debottlenecking its precipitated silica plant at Chester, PA. Precise details on the scale of the project have not been revealed, but 'CW' reports that the company will add "some million pounds of capacity by the end of 2004" to meet the growing demand in the US, mainly from the tyre and life sciences industries.