Tata Chemicals, Church & Dwight and FMC have signed a definitive agreement to jointly manufacture and market sodium-based dry sorbents for air pollution control in electric utility and industrial boiler operations.
The sorbents, primarily sodium bicarbonate and trona, are used by coal-fired utilities to remove harmful pollutants such as acid gases during flue-gas treatment processes.
Natronx Technologies, the new joint venture entity will produce, sell and distribute sodium sorbents to users of the dry sorbent injection technology.
Natronx expects to invest approximately $60m to construct a 450,000t/year facility to produce trona sorbents by the fourth quarter of 2012.
