# Ercros invests €53M in Tarragona plants for chlorine technology change

Ercros is investing €53 million in its Vila-seca and Tortosa plants as part of a plan to switch from mercury to membrane technology for chlorine production, and to expand capacity of PVC and pentaerythritol.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2018-10-19
- Where: Vila-seca and Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain
- Value: $61.0M (53.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2020
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: chlorine: 172,000 t/year; PVC: 200,000 t/year; pentaerythritol: 34,000 t/year
- Products: chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, hydrochloric acid, caustic soda, PVC, pentaerythritol
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Ercros](https://endata.com/companies/22915.md)

## Sources

- [diaridetarragona.com](https://www.diaridetarragona.com/economia/59767/cambio-de-tecnologia-para-producir-cloro-en-ercros-20181019-0018-yrdt201810190018.html), 2018-10-19: "La estrategia de inversiones de Ercros en el corto y medio plazo está definida en el plan de adaptación al cambio tecnológico («Plan Act»), que abarca el período 2016-2020 y contiene actuaciones por importe de 80 millones de euros, de los cuales 53 millones de euros se destinan a fábricas ubicadas e"

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