Second ‘Chemical Island’ for AkzoNobel

Facility will supply Brazilian pulp mill
 

AkzoNobel’s Eka Chemicals subsidiary is invest about €80 million to build a new ‘Chemical Island’ facility to serve a pulp mill in Brazil. Under a 15-year agreement, Eka Chemicals will supply, store and handle all the chemicals for the 1.5 million tones/year Suzano Papel e Celulose’s Suzano Maranhão pulp mill at Imperatriz in Maranhão state.

The ‘Chemical Island’ is the second of its kind to be announced in Brazil in the past year and is due onstream in Q4 of 2013. Eka Chemicals already runs Chemical Islands and other production units at several customer sites in Brazil, plus bleaching and paper chemical plants in Jacareí, Rio de Janeiro, Três Lagoas and Jundiaí.

AkzoNobel as a whole employs over 2,700 people in Brazil and had revenue near €850 million in 2010, mostly generated from local demand. It aims to achieve revenue of €1.5 billion in Brazil by 2015.