Tata Chemicals, Church & Dwight, and FMC form air pollution control JV in US
23 Sep 2011
Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners, the US subsidiary of Tata Chemicals, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Church & Dwight Company and FMC Corporation for setting up a project to manufacture and market sodium-based dry sorbents.
The sorbents, primarily sodium bicarbonate and trona, are used for air pollution control in electric utility and industrial boiler operations.
Basically, these are used by coal-fired utilities to remove harmful pollutants, such as acid gases, in flue-gas treatment processes.
Independent estimates put market demand for these sorbents in the $200-$400 million range by 2015.
The new jointly venture entity, Natronx Technologies, will be headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Natronx will produce, sell and distribute sorbents to users of the dry sorbent injection (DSI) technology.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that DSI technology is espected to be employed by nearly 20 per cent of US coal-fired electric generation capacity as part of compliance with air pollution regulations issued in March 2011.