Italmatch acquires waste-based phosphorus process technology
Italmatch Chemicals, a specialty chemical group focused on the production and marketing of performance additives for plastics, as well as those for water and process treatment, oil and gas, and industrial lubricants, has acquired RecoPhos Project Technology, including all licenses, IP, know-how and assets related to it, from Israel Chemicals (ICL). The aim is to further develop and complete a sustainable, highly efficient and economical viable process to recover phosphorus from all P-containing waste streams (sewage sludge ashes is one of them) to produce P 4 . Phosphorus is a key raw material from flame retardants. Image courtesy of Italmatch Chemicals. Italmatch Chemicals’ historical and current portfolio is strongly related to phosphorus (tetraphosphorus; P 4 ) as a strategic raw material. Recophos Project technology (Recovery of Phosphorus) will open a new route to produce elemental phosphorus with the purest quality, out of secondary “waste” raw materials, contributing to reduce the consumption of natural phosphate ore, declared as critical and strategic raw material by the EU due to its limited availability in the long term future.
Italmatch acquires waste-based phosphorus process technology
Italmatch Chemicals, a specialty chemical group focused on the production and marketing of performance additives for plastics, as well as those for water and process treatment, oil and gas, and industrial lubricants, has acquired RecoPhos Project Technology, including all licenses, IP, know-how and assets related to it, from Israel Chemicals (ICL). The aim is to further develop and complete a sustainable, highly efficient and economical viable process to recover phosphorus from all P-containing waste streams (sewage sludge ashes is one of them) to produce P 4 . Phosphorus is a key raw material from flame retardants. Image courtesy of Italmatch Chemicals. Italmatch Chemicals’ historical and current portfolio is strongly related to phosphorus (tetraphosphorus; P 4 ) as a strategic raw material. Recophos Project technology (Recovery of Phosphorus) will open a new route to produce elemental phosphorus with the purest quality, out of secondary “waste” raw materials, contributing to reduce the consumption of natural phosphate ore, declared as critical and strategic raw material by the EU due to its limited availability in the long term future.