(hydrocarbonprocessing) -- LSB Industries said its El Dorado chemical facility in Arkansas suffered significant damage to the DSN concentrated nitric acid plant and surrounding equipment when a reactor exploded Tuesday morning.
There were no injuries to employees or anyone in the El Dorado community, the company said, adding that it believes there was no environmental release.
LSB is investigating the cause of the event and the extent of the damages, it said.
LSB said it does not have an estimate on the extent of the damages or the repair time. However, the El Dorado facility is out of operation at the present time due to the damage.
It is unknown how long the facility will be out of production.
The El Dorado complex produces and sells about 470,000 tpy of nitrogen-based products, including nitric acid in concentrations up to 98%, sulfuric acid, ammonium nitrate solution, and both high and low-density ammonium nitrate prills.
(chemmonitor) -- The Brussels-headquartered Belgium company Solvay S.A. unveiled its financial results of January-March 2012.
The company's REBITDA dropped by about 9% year on year, in Q1 2012, and demonstrated a 47% hike, if compared to October-December 2011.
Solvay's net sales from January through March reached about EUR 3.2 million. The figure rose by 8.1% year on year and by around 3%, as opposed to Q1 of the last year.
The Belgium chemical company showed a snug increase in its business through Q1, 2012.
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