Specialty chemicals company 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 carbon black for a variety of applications, including coatings, printing inks, rubber, polymers, fiber and rubber. The site’s two production lines have a total capacity of 70kilotons per year.
Orion’s existing plant in China is in Qingdao, in the eastern province of Shandong. Built in 1994, it produces carbon black grades for tires, mechanical rubber goods and specialty applications.
“The Huaibei facility is a huge milestone for Orion. The state-of-the-art plant enables us to better support our Chinese customers with products that are made in China,” said Orion CEO Corning Painter at the opening ceremony.
“Now we can reallocate production lines in the US and Europe so that we can increase supply to customers in those markets.”
