Asahi Kasei Unit to Recycle Industrial Waste Water in China

Tokyo, April 15 (Jiji Press)–An Asahi Kasei Corp. subsidiary has won a contract to recycle waste water into industrial water in China, Asahi Kasei said Tuesday.

Under the contract, Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. will recycle waste water from Sony Chemical & Information Device Corp.’s printed circuit board plant in Suzhou, eastern China, and provide high- quality industrial process water, Asahi Kasei said.

An Asahi Kasei Chemicals unit will build a water recycling plant with a daily capacity of some 1,700 tons to launch its operations in late January 2009.

Sony Chemical will pay a recycling process fee to Asahi Kasei Chemicals. END

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