Italmatch Chemicals Newport – Inside the manufacturing plant
Part of Italmatch Chemical Group since 2013, Newport plant has been manufacturing Dequest® products since 1976
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Location
Newport, South Wales, UK -
Capacity
3 Production Plants with total Plant Capacity of 60,000t/yr; Amino Plant 40,000t/yr; HEDP Plant 20,000t/yr; Dequest® Liquid Blending 7,000t/yr -
Production
Main chemistries manufactured are sequestering agents used in a wide range of products including laundry, washing powders and liquids and in domestic cooling water systems to prevent scale
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Italmatch Chemicals Newport plant products
Amino Plant – Organo phosphonate threshold scale inhibitors and sequestering agents. The products are typically amino phosphonates used as ingredients in a wide range of products including consumer products like household detergents, Industrial & Institutional cleaners and in a wide variety of industrial water treatment additives used for the prevention or removal of deposits, corrosion and for the control of metals in industrial systems/processes.
HEDP Plant – A nominal 60% aqueous solution of 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP). Threshold scale inhibitor and sequestering agent used as ingredient in a wide range of products including consumer products like household detergents, Industrial & Institutional cleaners and in a wide variety of industrial water treatment additives used for the prevention or removal of deposits, corrosion and for the control of metals in industrial systems/processes.
Liquid Blending – Several blends predominantly based on raw materials manufactured in the Amino and HEDP plant; Functional Solutions specifically developed for use as industrial water & process treatment additives in end-market applications like desalination, geothermal, pulp & paper, mining and other industrial processes and for chelant /(co-) builder replacement in Household and Industrial & Institutional formulations.
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Dequest®, Turpinal® and Briquest® lines
Italmatch produces Dequest®, Turpinal® and Briquest® phosphonates in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom on the site at Corporation Road. The assets, technology, trademark, etc. are fully owned by Italmatch. Italmatch UK Ltd has an Operating Agreement in place with Solutia UK Ltd. Under this agreement Solutia employees produce, test, pack and distribute the Dequest®, Turpinal® and Briquest® products for Italmatch following the Quality Assurance guidelines from Italmatch. Italmatch Chemicals provides the raw materials and is the owner of the finished products.
26 employees working on site are fully dedicated to Italmatch’s Production and Planning. Further employees are shared with the other activities on site.
- Top Tier COMAH site
- 3 Production Plants – Glass lined Reactors, Strippers, Neutraliser, Graphite Condensers, Glass lined day tanks. Multi drumming lines and bulk loading facilities.
- Tank farm – 22 external tanks, 40m3 – 400m3. Storage of finished product and raw materials.
- Formose effluent treatment plant – The Formose process deals with the toxic chemical, formaldehyde, which is discharged as a residue during the manufacture of chemicals used in washing detergents and to prevent build-up of scale in water treatment processes.
The industry-accepted best technique to deal with formaldehyde through a bio-treatment plant was ineffective, so a reaction was developed known as Formose, which converts formaldehyde to harmless sugars and reduces its presence in waste water to one part per million. This Europe-leading success of the project has been recognised by the prestigious Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards.
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Sustainability & certifications
All the activities in Italmatch Newport manufacturing plant are carried out following strict Quality & HSE standards and certified to:
- ISO 9001:2015 (Integrated Quality Management System)
- ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management System)
- ISO 45001:2011 (Occupational health and safety management)
- ISO 50001:2018 (Energy Management System)
Significant recent investments on plant upgrades and safety systems including full multi plant DCS upgrades, new fully automated drumming lines and replacement storage tanks scheduled for 2023 and 2024.
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Newport Industrial Heat Recovery Scheme
The Italmatch plants benefit from the on site IHRS (Industrial Heat Recovery Scheme), a condensing economizer waste heat recovery unit on the site steam generation facility: waste heat is extracted from the boiler exhaust stack and transferred for use in other applications, thereby reducing the need for heat derived from burning fossil fuel.
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