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Inorganic Chemicals

Covestro opens chlorine plant in Spain

by Michael McCoy
February 10, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue 6

 

A person works at a chlorine electrolysis plant.
Credit: Covestro
Covestro says its new facility can reduce carbon dioxide compared with existing processes.

Covestro has opened a chlorine plant in Tarragona, Spain, that it says is the world’s first large-scale facility to use oxygen depolarized cathode technology. The process, developed with the engineering firm Thyssen- krupp Nucera, uses 25% less energy than traditional chlor-alkali electrolysis, Covestro says. The plant cost more than $200 million and will supply chlorine for the firm’s production of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, a polyurethane raw material.

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