28 January 2014
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BASF
will build a new
methylglycine diacetic acid world-scale plant
at Evonik's Theodore, Alabama site.
The investment will be about $90 million and
the new production facility is planned
to start up in the second half of 2015.
BASF's innovative chelating agent is biodegradable
and improves the cleaning effect of
detergents and cleaners in
* home care and
* I&I (Industrial and Institutional)
cleaning applications.
It is emerging as
the preferred alternative to phosphates
in modern, high-performance, ecological
dishwashing detergents
The investment in Theodore, Alabama,
will free up capacity in Ludwigshafen, Germany,
to serve the increasing European demand for
BASF's methyglycine diacetic acid
triggered by the phosphate regulation
for consumer automatic dishwashing detergents
which is expected in 2017.
In the United States, phosphates were already banned
from consumer automatic dishwashing detergents
in 16 states in 2010.
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