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India’s Thirumalai plans US maleic anhydride plant

by Michael McCoy
May 22, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 19

 

Thirumalai Chemicals plans to build a plant in the northeastern US that makes maleic anhydride and the derivative food ingredients malic acid and fumaric acid. The Indian company says it will take advantage of low-cost butane feedstock from local shale gas. Thirumalai already produces the chemicals in India. The Italian firm Polynt is in the process of building a maleic anhydride plant in Morris, Illinois, as a raw material for unsaturated polyester resins.

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