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Altech keen on Germany

MALAYSIAN high purity alumina producer Altech Chemicals is weighing up an offer from the Saxony state government in eastern Germany to get its foot in the door of Europe and the continent’s fledgling electric vehicle battery industry by building a second HPA plant in the region.

 Dr Jingyuan Liu (ATC general manager operations), Michael Kretschmer (Minister-President of Saxony) and  Jens Willenbockel (ATC consultant)

Dr Jingyuan Liu (ATC general manager operations), Michael Kretschmer (Minister-President of Saxony) and Jens Willenbockel (ATC consultant)

Altech is currently building a HPA plant in the Malaysian city of Johor that will have capacity for 4500 tonnes of HPA per annum, made from kaolin clays dug up from a shallow open-pit mine near Meckering...

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