# Metafrax Chemicals to double melamine capacity by 2025

Metafrax Chemicals and Casale SA signed a memorandum to build a new melamine production unit at Metafrax's site in Gubakha, Perm Krai, for EUR 270 million, increasing capacity by 40,000 tonnes per year to 80,000 tonnes per year, creating 59 jobs.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2021-07-22
- Where: Gubakha, Perm Krai, Russia
- Value: $320.0M (270.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 59
- Starts operating: 2025
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 40,000 tonnes per year (new); 80,000 tonnes per year (total)
- Products: melamine
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Metafrax Chemicals](https://endata.com/companies/56999.md)
- [Casale](https://endata.com/companies/38792.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [perm.plus.rbc.ru](https://perm.plus.rbc.ru/pressrelease/6112112d7a8aa902c441e217), 2021-08-10: "Подписанный сегодня документ знаменует новый этап давнего плодотворного сотрудничества с нашими партнерами из «Casale SA»."

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