Prayon set up sodium hexametaphosphate plant in US

Belgian firm Prayon, one of the leading global players in phosphate chemistry, will build a manufacturing unit of food grade sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) in the US that will double its production capacity and strengthen its position in the food sector. The new plant, to be built on the Group's US site in Augusta, Georgia, will supplement the current SHMP production unit in Roches de Condrieu, France.
 
Projected capacity of the new SHMP unit is 10,000 tonne per annum (tpa). The project is part of Prayon's growth strategy in the food sector and will support the strategic development in emerging markets such as Latin America and Asia. It will enable the Group to meet growing customer demand for processed food applications as well as ever increasing internal needs for the manufacture of core products such as Carfosel (for meat and seafood applications) and Kasomel (for cheese).
 
Prayon manufactures and markets an extensive range of purified phosphoric acids, phosphate salts and fluorine products from our sites throughout the world. The Prayon products are mainly used in food (including baked goods, meat, processed cheese, fish and seafood, cereals, fruit and vegetables), drinks, pharmaceutical products (including toothpaste, oral hygiene products and excipients) and a range of industrial applications (for paper, ceramics, glass, metal, etc).