Sanmar’s Egyptian plant
Noida-based Nuberg Engineering is to build The Sanmar Group’s a calcium chloride plant in Port Said, Egypt.
The US$20 million is for design, detailed engineering and procurement of complex chemical equipment for TCI Sanmar for the anhydrous calcium chloride pellets/granules production of 135,000 ton per annum. TCI is the subsidiary of the Chennai-based The Sanmar Group.
Russia’s Zirax is the technology supplier for the chemical plant.
Zirax’s responsibility is to transfer the technology of production of liquid & anhydrous product and to provide basic engineering and technical regulation documents.
The plant commissioning is planned to be by the end of 2017.
The calcium chloride plant is a part of Sanmar’s already existing chemical complex, incorporating caustic soda plant, EDC (Ethylene Dichloride), VCM (Vinyle Chloride Monomer) and PVC plants. This chemical complex produces hydrochloric acid (HCL) which will be used to manufacture calcium chloride (CACL2).
TCI Sanmar chemicals has established world class Plants for manufacturing 200,000 TPA of PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) and 275,000 TPA of caustic soda at Port Said. fii-news.com