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South Korea’s OCI Builds Coal Tar Refinery

by Jean-François Tremblay
January 12, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 2

South Korean chemical producer OCI and Maanshan Iron & Steel will build a 350,000-metric-ton-per-year coal tar refinery in Maanshan, Anhui province, China. OCI will own 60% of the plant and Maanshan, 40%. The refinery will process coal tar to produce pitch, carbon black oil, and naphthalene for export. In 2008, OCI opened another coal tar refinery in Shandong, China.

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