BASF starts work on vitamin B plant in Korea...Obtains license for THF complex in Shanghai. (New Construction Projects).(Brief Article)

From: Chemical Week | Date: September 18, 2002 | Copyright information

BASF says it will close its lysine plant at Gunsan, Korea in October for about six weeks for the installation of a previously announced 3,000-m.t./year vitamin B2 plant (CW, Oct. 31, 2001, p. 17). The two units share the utilities. The company has 100,000 m.t./year of lysine capacity at Gunsan, its only production sire. BASF says the shutdown is likely to cause a shorta...

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