GERMANY: POTASH INVESTMENT IN STANFURT

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Pottasche Stanfurt GmbH & Co. KG is building a production plant for potash in east German Stasfurt. Commercial operation is to start at the beginning of 2002. The DM 15mn, 20,000-tpy facility replaces a semi-pilot plant with a capacity of 3,000 tpy. The new facility supplied by the Weimar-based company Glatt is based on a new fluidised bed granulation technology. The potash will go to the glass, chemical, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, food and photochemical industries. Fischer + Limberger GmbH, the Berlin-based company backing Pottasche Stasfurt, is considering the production of also caustic potash solution in Stasfurt.

Vitamin, Nutrient & Hematinic Preps, Food Additives, All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing, All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Flavor & Perfume Materials, Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Inorganic Chemicals NEC, Dietary supplements industry, Food additives industry, Chemical industry, Additives, Essences and essential oils industry, Inorganic compounds

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GERMANY: AVENTIS BOOSTS PHARMACEUTICAL OUTPUT

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About DM 60mn is being spent by Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH on expanding the production of Ramipril, an active agent for cardio-vascular drugs, in Frankfurt-Hochst. In 1999 the agent generated a turnover of EUR 370mn.

Cardiovascular Preparations, Cardiovascular agents, Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH

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GERMANY: HYDROTALCIT INVESTMENT BY SUD-CHEMIE

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In Germany, a 5,000-tpy production plant for the PVC co-stabiliser synthetic hydrotalcit has been brought on stream in Moosburg by Sud-chemie AG .

Sud-Chemie AG

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