ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is further expanding its electrolysis business. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions has reached an agreement with De Nora, an electrochemical technologies supplier based in Milan, to establish a joint venture. The companies intend to combine their engineering, procurement and construction activities for electrolysis plants under the name ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers. This will enable both partners to expand their technological platforms and increase their global presence.
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions and De Nora have already been cooperating for several years on licensing various electrolysis processes under an existing joint venture, UHDENORA. ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will combine the electrolysis business of the two companies under the managerial control of ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, the majority shareholder, and will be consolidated in the Group. The company will be headquartered in Dortmund and represented worldwide with locations in Okayama, Tokyo, Shanghai, Milan and Houston.
A key area of the activities will be the continued development of the technological platforms to improve plant operation and technical customer support. All key existing electrolysis processes of the two companies, including the filter press-based BiTAC process from Chlorine Engineers, all generations of the UHDENORA/Uhde single-element technology and the HCl ODC and NaCl ODC technologies, will continue.