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European Firms Serve Brazilian Pulp Makers

by Michael McCoy
May 19, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 20

Kemira and AkzoNobel both have deals to supply bleaching chemicals to Brazilian pulp manufacturers. Finland-based Kemira will build a plant in Paraná, Brazil, that supplies sodium chlorate to Klabin, which is building a pulp facility in Paraná. Kemira says the facility, to open in the first half of 2016, will cost roughly $75 million to build. Meanwhile, the Dutch firm AkzoNobel has opened a $115 million plant in northern Brazil that will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill with sodium chlorate and other chemicals needed to make pulp.

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