Duisburg / Brzeg Dolny (Poland), in July 2015. The chemicals company PCC Rokita SA, Brzeg Dolny (Poland), completed its scheduled work aligned to increasing its chlorine production capacity. The middle of the month saw a fifth electrolyzer come on stream in the membrane electrolysis plant, marking the end of the final expansion stage of the new chlor-alkali electrolysis process. Overall, this increases the annual production capacity of PCC Rokita from 120,000 metric tons of chlorine to 135,000 metric tons, and from 135,000 metric tons of caustic soda to 152,000 metric tons. Now plans are in place for 2016 to further extend capacity through additional process optimization, causing the annual figures to then rise to 149,000 metric tons of chlorine and 168,000 metric tons of caustic soda.
Since April 2015, we have been manufacturing chlorine through the exclusive use of environmentally friendly and energy-efficient membrane technology. This technological change-over, which we began in 2010, has enabled us to significantly reduce energy consumption. As a result, annual CO2 emissions are also set to be cut by 140,000 metric tons.