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Arkema Opens Malaysian Plant

by Jean-François Tremblay
June 15, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 24

Arkema has opened a $225 million plant in the Malaysian city of Kerteh that produces the thiochemicals methyl mercaptan and dimethyl disulfide. The French firm built the plant in cooperation with South Korea’s CJ CheilJedang, which will use methyl mercaptan as a raw material in an adjacent facility that makes the animal feed amino acid methionine. The methionine plant is unique in using a largely biobased process, CJ says.

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Credit: Arkema
Arkema’s new thiochemicals plant complements facilities in the U.S. and Europe.
Arkema has opened this $225 million plant in the Malaysian city of Kerteh that produces the thiochemicals methyl mercaptan and dimethyl disulfide.
Credit: Arkema
Arkema’s new thiochemicals plant complements facilities in the U.S. and Europe.

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