Speciality chemicals firm Orion has celebrated the completion of its first greenfield project – a carbon black plant in eastern China that will supply fast-growing demand in Asia. The facility in the city of Huaibei in Anhui province will produce…
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Orion to invest EUR12.8 mn in circular carbon black project in Germany
Specialty chemicals producer Orion is investing EUR12.8 million – including EUR6.4 million in funding from the German government and the European Union – to further develop and demonstrate a climate-neutral process for producing carbon black from alternative carbon sources, the…
Orion reduces air emissions with new technology in US plant
US carbon blacks supplier Orion Engineered Carbons says it will sharply reduce air emissions at its Borger, Texas, plant with new control technology. The US$60 million project also involved upgrading the site’s cogeneration system, which takes heat created by the carbon…
Orion to expand carbon black output in Louisiana
Carbon black supplier Orion Engineered Carbons says that next year the company will invest to convert a reactor line at its plant in Ivanhoe, Louisiana, US, from manufacturing soft carbon black to producing hard carbon black, commonly used in tyre treads.…