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customer demands within very short
cycles.”

The new TPU site will enable
Covestro to provide high-performance
yet sustainable solutions to its custo-
mers faster and more flexibly. At the
new site in Zhuhai, Covestro shall to
that end eventually offer products with
the label “CQ”. Products labelled as
such consist of at least 25 percent alter-
native, non-fossil raw materials. The
site will also utilise the most advanced
production technologies and be run on
100 percent renewable power.

“Together with recent investments carbonates in our site on the outskirts our Solutions & Specialties business
in new plants for Elastomers, Polyure- of Shanghai, this new site for TPU in entities in China, the region and world-
thane Dispersions and a production line southern China shall capture the robust wide,” said Ms. Holly Lei, President of
for the mechanical recycling of poly- growth of the core industries served by Covestro in China.

SET FOR COMMISSIONING
Solvay’s Taiwan jv readies electronic grade hydrogen

peroxide facility

Shinsol Advanced Chemicals, a
joint venture of Solvay and Shinkong
Synthetic Fibers Corporation, has
inaugurated its cutting-edge electronic
grade hydrogen peroxide plant in
Tainan, Taiwan.

Covering an expansive 2.4 hectares,
the new facility features an annual
production capacity of 35,000-tons of
high-purity hydrogen peroxide. It pri-
marily serves the semiconductor sector,
playing a pivotal role as a vital chemi-
cal agent in integrated electronic circuit
manufacturing. The plant is scheduled
for commissioning in December this
year, with full-scale production planned Director for Electronics at Solvay, electronics sector, where we are vital
for early next year. remarked. suppliers of the finest quality electronic
grade hydrogen peroxide, gasses, rare
“Taiwan, as Asia’s technology Ms. An Nuyttens, President of the earths, and chemicals for capacitors. It
hub, represents the ideal location for Special Chem business at Solvay, added, builds upon the extensive experience
this new facility, positioning us for “This facility plays a central role in we have gained from numerous opera-
significant growth in the electronics strengthening our global position and tional Solvay facilities throughout Asia,
sector,” Mr. Ziad Haddad, Business expanding our product portfolio in the Europe, and the US.”

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