Europe’s chlorine industry enters the post-mercury era — The shutdown of the last amalgam systems are taken out of service in December 2017, a technological era will come to an end. However, with membrane electrolysis technology underway, it will not mean the extinction of the industry. Plant operators and engineers are moving on on to the next level of the chlorine (r)evolution, balancing sustainability, energy efficiency and safety.

Mitsubishi Chemical and Asahi Kasei join forces for cracker operations in Japan: Both firms agreed on forming a new joint venture for the operation of a unified naphtha cracker in Mizushima - the old sites of the individual firms will be idled...

Asahi Kasei Medical will construct a new plant for the spinning of cellulose hollow-fiber membranes for Planova virus removal filters in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, increasing annual production capacity by 40,000 m2/year upon completion in May 2019.

Asahi Kasei will increase production capacity for Celgard and Hipore Li-ion battery (LIB) separator at its plants in North Carolina, the US, and Shiga, Japan, respectively.

Asahi Kasei’s Fibers & Textiles SBU announced that it plans to expand its production capacity for Leona nylon 66 filament in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan.

The German plant and process engineering specialist Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) has won the order for a turnkey chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Torrelavega in the North of Spain. Customer is the Portuguese company CUF-Químicos Industriais. Learn more about this project ...

CAC has been awarded a contract by Neolyse Ibbenbüren – a production joint venture of Evonik and Akzo Nobel – for the performance of EPCM services as general contractor for a new membrane electrolysis to be constructed at the Akzo Nobel site in Ibbenbüren, Germany.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC) has announced the completion of its first chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany.

Asahi Kasei Medical announced the construction of a new plant for the spinning of cellulose hollow-fiber membranes for Planova virus removal filters in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan. The measure will increase the annual production capacity by 40,000 m2/year upon completion in May 2019.

Following the start of a demonstration project in Herten, Germany, in April 2018, Asahi Kasei launched an alkaline-water electrolysis demonstration project in Soma, Fukushima, Japan. The new project aims at the development of a large-scale production system for green hydrogen by using power input from renewable energy sources.