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The Community has committed to this new facility more than 1.3 million as aid for R & D + i in strategic sectors
The plant complies with environmental responsibility, through which the administration means big business in the region to help halt climate change
The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, opened today in tailings (Cartagena), the new Plant Use and Reuse of Industrial By-product (PARIS) for the production of sulfuric acid, the Mediterranean Special Aceites (Aemedsa).
This plant, owned by Grupo Fuertes, is a pioneer in the chemical industry and will produce from Murcia Region a new line of products derived from sulfuric acid, "a clear commitment to R + D + i, safety and sustainability environment, "said Valcarcel.
It said the president, a very complex industry and innovation that makes the process of sulfuric acid production techniques that are not common, which makes it a "major world premiere, thanks to the constant development of new technologies ".
Valcárcel, accompanied by the Minister for Universities and Research Company, Salvador Marin, Group President Strong, Thomas Strong, toured the new facility, which involves an investment of 12 million euros.
In this new factory will produce about 3,000 tons of sulfuric acid that was not sold to date, and maintains high standards of safety and environmental control.
In particular, almost completely eliminates the use of fossil fuels to generate steam, and the assumption of long-term damage to duplicate your equipment.
It also produces about 4,000 tons per year of sulfuric acid and saturated steam 30,879, equivalent to the energy used for heating of a population of approximately 20,000.
The production plant will join PARIS existing special white oil sectors for food, pharmaceuticals or cosmetics, and natural petroleum sulfonates which are used for aerospace, naval and automotive.
PARIS plant complies with environmental responsibility, the Protocol on Sustainable Development in the Region of Murcia, through which the Administration claims that the big companies like Aemedsa, contribute to tackling climate change.
This initiative of the regional administration can voluntarily offset emissions of greenhouse gases produced, contributing to the regional fund is intended to cover maintenance and improvement projects in these ecosystems as sinks for CO2.
In total, the Autonomous Community has gone into this new facility in 2008 and 2009 over 1.3 million euros as aid the Industrial Plan for investment in R + D + i in strategic sectors.
Exports to the U.S., India, China and Germany
With its launch in 1997, Aemedsa already made an initial investment of 3.95 billion euros, which followed a series of projects worth 5.5 million until 2003, aimed at optimizing the initial installations.
Thus, with the support of regional government, the establishment of this company was one of the biggest bets for the recovery of industrial activity and employment in Cartagena.
Its production capacity is estimated at 30,000 tons per year and its turnover is 20 million per year.
In Europe there are only four manufacturers of this type of product, which exports about 45 percent of the total.
The main destinations for sale for this product range outside Europe are the United States, India, China and Germany.
Source: CARM
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