Holding
PCC Rail S.A. acquires a majority stake in the port company in Szczecin (Poland). PCC now holds 91.4 % of the shares in this company, which is renamed PCC Port Szczecin.
In December, PCC Rokita SA sells its 90 % stake in the subsidiary Rokita-Agro S.A., a manufacturer of plant protection products and pesticides, to an Israeli investor.
Chemicals
After a construction period of 15 months, PCC Rokita SA completes its second sulfonation plant for the production of anionic surfactants. The facility’s capacity is 30,000 metric tons per year, this quadrupling the company’s surfactant production volume from 10,000 to 40,000 mt/y. A pipe system connects the new plant to the existing facility to enable optimum capacity utilization. Application of the latest technologies ensures high productivity and thus a good position on the European market. Today, the Surfactants segment belongs to PCC Exol SA, Poland’s only surfactants producer.
Energy
PCC commissions its modern cogeneration power plant known as EC-3 on the site of PCC Rokita SA. The new CHP facility (combined heat and power) significantly reduces the emissions of climate-changing gases, dust, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen compounds, including a cut in CO2 emissions of up to 40,000 metric tons per year.
