By the European excess capacity, and the global rise in raw material costs two aspects factors, global papermaking chemicals producers profitability compressed. Manufacturers plan through investment in new technologies and fast growth areas such as Asia and Brazil, and other ways to compensate for profit pressure. The influence of by weak demand, papermaking chemicals in some European manufacturers have announced plans to close part capacity, and will these production transferred to the Asian market.
Akzo Nobel is benefiting from Latin American market fast growth. Akzo Nobel chemicals division corp. in papermaking chemical company has announced it will card investment about 9,000 euros (us $123 million) in Brazil, pull a set of new o Jericho world-class sodium chlorate device. This device will have in card chemical company owned and operation, product will supply Brazil large pulp mill DuoLaDuo cellulose pulp company Evans in local new a 150 tons/year of pulp factory. This paper mills will become the world's largest pulp mill, is expected to put into production in September 2012.
In addition to Latin American market, most papermaking chemicals producers are currently Asian investments. Finland is currently China KaiMiLa company invested 25 million euros in nanjing new specialty chemicals production factory, among them, a set of neutral papermaking sizing agent - alkenyl amber anhydride (ASA) device will be put into production in 2012. In addition, KaiMiLa company in China in 2010 opens a set of yanzhou fluoroalkyl ketene dimers (AKD) devices.
Germany basf company will expand its production capacity of papermaking chemicals in Asia, it is the company's papermaking chemicals business part of a restructuring plan. By 2010, basf company in China announced plans to build a set of huizhou carboxyl butyl benzene (XSB) and acrylic dispersion device. The company also announced plans to build a set of nanjing in China cationic monomer device and a set of cationic polyacrylamide device.
Basf company plans to ChaHe in Germany glen of papermaking dye factory moved to India Ankleshwar, also will reduce its supply of papermaking dye product quantity. Close the ChaHe German glen papermaking dye factory is basf company restructuring papermaking chemicals business part of the program, the restructuring plan is mainly located in Europe's productivity will be transferred to the Asia. The papermaking chemicals basf company restructuring plan will from the beginning of this year, is expected to complete in 2013.
Swiss clariant company will also from the beginning of this year restructuring papermaking chemicals business, the company will be closed located in Switzerland mourinho's papermaking chemicals wattenberg production device. Located in mourinho's production capacity will wattenberg transferred to the Spanish platt. According to clariant company said the move is also facing European papermaking chemicals market influence of excess capacity.
