Project Profile
Value: $100 Million
Startup Year: 2013
Location: Xingtai
Once commissioned in early 2013, the Xingtai facility will produce approximately 130,000 metric tons of carbon black annually with the potential for expansion to 300,000 metric tons. The new plant will employ advanced emissions control technology and energy recapture.
Carbon black is an intensely black performance material, used as a reinforcing agent in rubber as well as a pigmenting, UV stabilizing and conductive additive in a variety of other specialty products.
Operator:
Cabot Corp.: 60% interest
Risun Chemicals Company, Ltd.: 40% interest