Production has started at AkzoNobel’s chelates facility located at the company’s new site in Ningbo, China.

NINGBO, China – Production has started at AkzoNobel’s chelates facility located at the company’s new site in Ningbo, China.

The new plant, which will help to optimize the company’s global supply chain, will produce most of the basic chelates in AkzoNobel’s Dissolvine® product range. This will include the company’s new biodegradable chelating agent, Dissolvine GL.

The startup of the first activities in Ningbo means that AkzoNobel is now the only major producer of chelates with plants in Europe, North America and Asia. New ethylene amines and ethylene oxide factories are also due to begin production at the site in 2010, followed by an organic peroxides facility.