Nalco
The Nalco Chemical Company is a global chemical company based in Naperville , Illinois, USA, and provides specialty chemicals, mainly for water and waste water treatment for cooling water - and steam conditioning may and optimization of industrial processes, for example in refineries , the Chemical industry , in power plants and in paper mills . Since the merger in 2011, Nalco has been part of Ecolab , which is otherwise active in the field of industrial cleaning and hygiene for the food industry and hospitals.
The company was founded in 1928 in the USA N ational Al uminate Co rporation founded and introduced first sodium aluminate solution for water treatment ago. In the 1950s, Nalco established itself - initially as a business area of Lurgi / Frankfurt - also in Germany ( Deutsche Nalco-Chemie GmbH / Frankfurt am Main) and Europe and became one of the leading companies in the field of water treatment and environmental protection . For waste water treatment , the Nalco developed and for clarification and dewatering processes acrylate copolymers, for the first time by the process of emulsion polymerization were prepared (liquid polymers), and as a flocculant and polyelectrolytes are used. One of the largest production facilities for liquid polymers was built in Biebesheim am Rhein in the 1970s, where polymers for the European market are still produced today.
Today, Nalco has companies in all industrialized countries, and in many countries also with production facilities. Around 11,000 people are employed worldwide, who provide services and products to around 70,000 customers in over 100 countries. In Europe, the company is now run as Nalco Europe from Leiden / Netherlands.
Before the merger in 2011, the US-American Nalco had sales of 4 billion US $ (approx. 2.5 billion euros).
After the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon , BP bought Nalco's entire inventory of Corexit , a type of soap to break down the oil into tiny droplets, of which more than 2.5 million liters have already been used. The chemical was developed by Exxon and was also used in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster . However, the impact on the environment is controversial. The choice of the agent was also criticized, as BP is on the Nalco board of directors.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Nalco Water & Process Services, an Ecolab company. Ecolab, accessed October 15, 2017 .
- ^ Criticism of Corexit - tagesschau.de ( Memento from May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).