Australian saltworks to expand
Mitsui/Shark Bay expands. Mitsui is expanding the capacity of the crystalizer ponds at its Onslow, Western Australia saltworks to raise production by 500,000 tons per year, according to the April SSRF Report of a March 17 story in the Japanese-language Chemical Daily .
Mitsui bought the plant from Akzo Nobel in 2007 when the combined output of Onslow and its existing Shark Bay facility totalled 3.8 million tons. The Onslow expansion will raise that facilty's output to 2.5 million; another 500,000 tons is planned in a second phase. Shark Bay, now producing about a million tons, will expand by 300,000 tons bringing Mitsui's Australian production to 4.3 million tons.
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