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SKC Buys Part Of Peroxide Plant

by Jean-François Tremblay
November 22, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 47

South Korea’s SKC will buy a 45% stake in Evonik Degussa Peroxide Korea, an Evonik hydrogen peroxide operation that came on-line in 2006. SKC started operating the world’s first commercial-scale plant for propylene oxide derived from peroxide and propylene in 2008. The SKC propylene oxide plant, which makes use of a process developed by Evonik and the engineering firm Uhde, has a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year.

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