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Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business unit of Emerald Performance Materials, has completed decongesting in a reactor brought online in 2014 to optimize emission, adding 50 KT of reactor capacity.
In addition, the company entered the final stage of construction for a US$40 million expansion at the company's headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which will increase capacity and support growing global demand for Purox benzoic acid and Kalama benzaldehyde, as well as related derivative products. Construction of the project will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016.
The project includes the addition of new purification and finishing facilities to the Rotterdam headquarters, which will increase capacity by approximately 100,000 KT for the Kalama and Purox brands of benzoic acid flakes, sodium benzoate and liquid benzoic acid granules. In addition, the scope of the original project was expanded to increase the capabilities of the Kalama benzaldehyde. The commissioning of the new purification facilities is scheduled for the first quarter of 2017.
