With an annual capacity of 13,000 metric tons, the new production facility for pyrogenic silica supplements the Charleston site's value chain; construction work is expected to begin in spring of 2017, with completion planned for the first half of 2019; capital expenditure of some us$150 million to be invested and around 50 new jobs to be created; CEO Rudolf Staudigl: "The new plant is the next logical step toward expanding Charleston into a fully integrated silicon site in the world's second-largest chemical market".
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