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Solvay, Accsys Move On Acetylated Wood
by Alexander H. Tullo
August 18, 2014
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 92, Issue 33
Solvay and Accsys have hammered out a new agreement under which Solvay will license Accsys acetylated wood technology for a plant it will build in Freiburg, Germany. In Accsys’s process, acetic anhydride reacts with the hydroxyl groups in wood, making it moisture resistant. The plant will have 63,000 m3 of acetylated wood capacity when it is completed in 2016. The two companies had expected to start production this year. Eastman Chemical launched an acetylated wood business under the Perennial Wood name but closed up shop earlier this year, citing “challenging economics.”
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