South African petrochemical giant Sasol has opened an office in Shanghai to market its range of chemical solvents in China.
Sasol Chemicals Shanghai will initially market products from the global Sasol Solvents business, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
Sasol Solvents operates plants in South Africa and Germany and supplies a wide range of products, including glycol ethers, C3/C4 alcohols, esters and acids, ethanol, ethyl acrylate, fine chemicals and aldehydes, glacial acrylic acid, ketones, methanol, n-butyl acrylate and mining chemicals.
These are used in aerosol, agricultural, cosmetic, fragrance, mining, packaging, paint, adhesive, pharmaceutical, polish, printing and other applications.
”The Chinese market is extensive and forms part of our vigorous pursuit of global growth opportunities in the chemicals sector,” said Sasol Chemical Businesses group general manager Reiner Grohin. ”We believe that we can offer a significant value proposition to the Chinese chemical markets.”
Recently, Sasol announced plans to increase its octene production at Secunda in Mpumalanga by 100 000 tonnes a year. It will also double its methyl iso-butyl ketone output at Sasolburg, near Johannesburg.
Octene is used in the production of plastics. — Sapa