Nippon Shokubai breaks ground on SAP expansion in Bbelgium

摘要

Nippon Shokubai on Wednesday announced that its Nippon Shokubai Europe (Zwijndrecht, Belgium) subsidiary held a groundbreaking ceremony on 10 November for the expansion of the company’s superabsorbent polymer (SAP) plant and acrylic acid plant build at Zwijndrecht. Nippon Shokubai announced in May that it will invest ?350 million ($375.9 million) to expand SAP production at Zwijndrecht by 100,000 m.t./year, to 160,000 m.t./year, and build a 100,000-m.t./year acrylic acid plant at the site. Acrylic acid is a main raw material for SAP. The projects is expected to be mechanically complete in October 2017, and commercial production is expected to begin in May 2018.