Abstract
IN BARCELONA IN FEBRUARY, AT ITS fifth triennial technical seminar, the European chlorine industry tackled the topic of sustainable future for chlorine, with a focus on improving health, safety, and environmental performance. But an undercurrent of concern was clear during the conference: concern about the fate of the plants that account for more than half of the European industry's chlorine production and are still using mercury-cell technology. The industry is inexorably converting or closing its mercury-cell plants, but the timetable is not yet clear. The deadline for the total change will be either 2010, as recommended in 1990 by an international convention, or 2020, as the industry is arguing for. The decision that is finally made by June 2002 will have a dramatic impact on the industry. At the end of 2000, there were 48 mercury-cell chlor-alkali plants in Western Europe: 10 in Germany, nine each in Italy and Spain, seven in France; three ...
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