MOSCOW (MRC) -- Showa Denko (SDK) has concluded an absorption-type company split agreement with its wholly-owned subsidiary Aica SDK Phenol, as part of the recently announced plan to transfer its phenolic resin business to Aica Kogyo Co. Ltd, as per Apic-online.
Prior to the transfer of its phenolic resin business to Aica Kogyo, SDK is scheduled to split and transfer the business to Aica SDK Phenol on 1 Sept. 2015. SDK will on the same day transfer 85% of the shares of Aica SDK Phenol to Aica Kogyo.
As MRC wrote before, in early July 2015, Showa Denko completed the expansion of used-plastic gasification facility at the Kawasaki Plant. As part of its basic chemicals business, SDK is producing ammonia at Kawasaki. SDK processes used plastic to obtain part of hydrogen necessary for the synthesis of ammonia. As an industrial material, ammonia is used in the production of synthetic fibers and metal surface treatment for automotive and construction machinery parts. The demand for ammonia used for removing nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gas from thermal electric power plants and other facilities has been increasing in recent years. Furthermore, SDK's liquefied ammonia (trade name: Ecoann(TM)) has been approved and rated high as "eco-friendly goods for procurement" by major electric power companies because the product is partly based on used plastic.
Showa Denko K.K. is mainly engaged in the petrochemical business. The Petrochemical segment manufactures and sells olefin, organic chemicals and others. The Chemical Product segment supplies chemicals, industrial gases, special gas and functional drug for semiconductors, functional high molecular materials, among others.
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