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Arkema builds in Kentucky

February 20, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 8

Arkema will invest $45 million to convert one of its Calvert City, Ky., plants to produce hydrofluorocarbon-32, which it considers a next-generation refrigerant fluid. The converted plant, scheduled for start-up in 2007, will feature Arkema patented technology for production of HFC-32, a key component of HFC-410A, which Arkema says has emerged as the successor to hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 refrigerant. Arkema will phase out its Forane HCFC-22 by 2010, replacing it with Forane HFC-410A over the next few years. The conversion will make the Calvert City plant the world's largest HFC-32 production site, Arkema boasts.

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