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The €10-million inorganic coagulant plant being set up by Kemira-Indus at Visakhapatnam will begin commercial production from October.
Kemira-Indus is a joint venture between Kemira Oyj, a Finland-based €2.5-billion water chemistry company, and the promoters of Hyderabad-based IVRCL Ltd. Inorganic coagulants are essential chemicals used in industrial and water treatment.
The Vizag project is being implemented in three phases. The trial production at the plant will begin in August and by October it is expected to be ready for commercial production, said Mr Sudip Sarkar, Managing Director, Kemira Chemicals India, a subsidiary of Kemira Oyj.
Kemira and IVRCL promoters came together to tap the opportunities in the water business at the end of 2010. Kemira owns 51 per cent of the venture and IVRCL the rest. IVRCL is also implementing a desalination plant in Tamil Nadu.
Kemira-Indus acquired a 24-acre site for the manufacturing unit with an initial capacity of 50,000 tonnes a year. The unit is a zero-discharge plant with total recycling facility. “We are also looking at another site in the country where raw materials like aluminium tri-hydrate and HCl to make the coagulants are available,” Mr Sarkar told Business Line .
Water-treatment plants
Kemira Chemicals India was set up in Hyderabad in 2008. It has also set up a pilot membrane plant at Patancheru nearby. The idea is to test the chemicals produced by Kemira in the membranes, that is made by various manufacturers for water treatment.
Once the membrane makers certify the use of the chemicals, the company will be able to bid for water-treatment plants, said Mr Sarkar. The market for water-treatment chemicals is estimated to be about $500 million in India. Kemira, Hindustan Dorr-Oliver and IVRCL had also formed an alliance to bid for water-treatment projects.
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