Base Chemicals produces salt and energy, chlor-alkali products and derivatives like monochloroacetic acid (MCA). It is Europe’s largest producer of vacuum salt and a leading supplier of chlorine, caustic lye, hydrochloric acid ferric chloride and water treatment chemicals and MCA used in the chemical, detergent, construction, food, pulp and paper and plastic industries. Its products are essential in daily life and used in the manufacture of among others vehicles, glass, performance plastics, pharmaceuticals and textiles, and in disinfectants for swimming pools. Joint ventures operated with Dutch energy companies enable Akzo Nobel to make efficient use of combined heat and power (cogeneration) to assist in the production of chlorine and vacuum salt.

Base Chemicals has about 1,650 employees working at locations in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the USA, China and Japan. Production sites are: Rotterdam Botlek, Hengelo and Delfzijl (the Netherlands), Skoghall (Sweden), Ibbenbüren and Bitterfeld (Germany), Mariager (Denmark), LeMoyne (USA) and Taixing (China). Major joint ventures are: Salinco (Hengelo) and Delesto (Delfzijl) in the Netherlands and Denak (Ohmi) in Japan. The BU's head office is located in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. 

Akzo Nobel Base Chemicals is one of the business units of Akzo Nobel. Akzo Nobel is a multicultural company, market-driven and technology-based, serving customers throughout the world with coatings and chemicals.

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