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AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Evonik Industries have successfully started production at their new joint venture to produce chlorine and potassium hydroxide at the company’s Ibbenbüren site in Germany.

Evonik and AkzoNobel have officially started the construction of the new membrane electrolysis plant in Ibbenbüren on January 15, 2016.

AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business broke ground on a new alkoxylation facility in Ningbo, China, bringing the company’s total investment in the strategic multi-site to more than EUR 400M. The Ningbo multi-site covers around 50 hectares and accommodates production for chelates, ethylene amines, ethylene oxide, organic peroxides and Bermocoll cellulose derivatives.

AkzoNobel has announced its plans to invest a further EUR 65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and significantly improve operations at AkzoNobel's Surface Chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo.

AkzoNobel has signed an expanded joint venture agreement with the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo group of companies in an effort toward growth in the Middle East The deal strengthens the existing joint venture between AkzoNobel and Kanoo, which only covers the supply of the company's International Paint brand, along with coil and packaging coatings.