Plater Chemicals

Going back to Plater Chemicals roots ,we have restarted importing Sodium Metabisulphite from our Turkish principle Ak-Kim, I am sure the market will welcome an alternative to the Esseco product.

Following the increases in the prices of Boric Acid in the summer as a result of high demand from the Far East, we have seen prices softening over recent months.

Our Indian principle, Star Oxochem, have received notice that their goods will attract anti-dumping duties of 40% for imports into the UK. Other Chinese and Indian producers have also had anti-dumping duties applied; however Star Oxochem is higher than the rest and are appealing as a result. The price of Oxalic Acid has therefore increased substantially and no doubt EEC producers will follow.

Plater Chemicals, using Lancashire Chemicals facilities, has begun to produce Sodium Nitrate powder from a stream of Sodium Nitrate 40%, we will expand sales into the UK & EEC over the coming years.

Bruce Hendon,

Managing Director of The Plater Group

Lancashire Chemicals

De-Icers

We have prepared well for the winter season, although there has not been much demand in Q4. We have on stock our sodium acetate based powder de-icer in 25kg bags (10kg bags are available if required) and also our fully approved potassium acetate based runway de-icer is available for those snowy days!

Spray Drying

Lancashire Chemicals is the leading contract spray drying company in Europe with 11 commercial scale driers to handle all sizes of runs from a few kilo’s to full tanker lots. We can assist in your development process with our 2 pilot plant spray driers and have on many occasions helped companies to bring products from the lab bench, through pilot and small scale trial to full commercial production. We look forward to receiving your enquiries big or small!

Richard Sykes – Commercial Director - Lancashire Chemicals

Daltrade News

Q4 2011, especially the run up to the festive period has been an exceptionally busy period for the company, negotiations with our Polish partners are still ongoing but the majority of business has been concluded as regards the purchase of commodity chemicals. We received three Fast Vessels within three weeks; all products are safely into store at Britannia Storage Goole. Containers of Food Grade Sodium Bicarbonate will arrive by container early January 2012 for stock along with further boxes going direct to customer.

We now move into 2012 and will continue to work closely with our colleagues at Plater chemicals, Lancashire Chemicals and of course Ciech of Poland.

Mike West - Business Director - Daltrade Chemicals