Henkel Expands Capacity At Azelaic Acid Facility.

Chemical Market Reporter, October, 1998

HENKEL CORPORATION is launching a multimillion dollar debottlenecking project to increase its process efficiency and production capacity for azelaic acid to meet rising demand from customers. The project, which is scheduled to come on stream at Henkel's Cincinnati, Ohio, facility in mid-1999, follows the recent completion of an $8 million purification plant at the same site.

That project doubled the capacity of the company's polymer-grade azelaic acid, Emerox 1144. Henkel is the world's only manufacturer of azelaic acid and has been supplying the market for 53 years. The company uses proprietary technology and an environmentally friendly oxidation chemistry. It also employs natural, renewable raw materials such as oleic acid from its oleo-chemicals...

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