Production
In 2009, the worldwide capacity for producing this compound was 720,000 tonnes/annum, with production capacity roughly equally divided between Europe (350,000, mainly in Germany) and Asia (370,000, mainly in China), while production was below 1000 tonnes/annum in all other continents. It is commercially available in solutions of various concentrations between 85 and 99 w/w %. As of 2009, the largest producers are BASF, Kemira and Feicheng Acid Chemicals, with the largest production facilities in Ludwigshafen (200,000 tonnes/annum, BASF, Germany), Oulu (105,000, Kemira, Finland) and Feicheng (100,000, Feicheng, China). 2010 Prices ranged from circa € 650/tonne in Western Europe and $ 1250/tonne in the United States.
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