The Kazan Soda Elektrik, full name Kazan Soda Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., is a chemical industry and electric energy company in Ankara Province, Turkey producing natural soda ash and baking soda from trona. The company' is a subsidiary of Ciner Holding.

Background

The trona ore deposits were owned by

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, an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporation. After survey activities, which lasted more than fifteen years, the company concluded that it will be not able to operate the mining of the trona ore reserves there, and sold the deposits to

Ciner Holding Ciner Group (known as Park Holding until December 1994) is an industrial conglomerate in Turkey operating in energy, media, and commerce. Via Ciner Media Group, it owns media properties including the ''Habertürk'' newspaper and Habertürk TV ...

in 2010. The construction of the soda products plant began in 2015, after five years of efforts for

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permissions and financing. The investment budget of the project was US$1.5 billion. The financing of the project was provided by the

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(ICBC),

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and

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backed by the

China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation ( zh, s=中国出口信用保险公司, t=中國出口信用保險公司, p=Zhōngguó Chūkǒu Xìnyòng Bǎoxiǎn Gōngsī , commonly known as Sinosure (中国信保, Zhōngguó Xìnbǎo)) is a major C ...

(Sinosure).

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financially contributed during the groundbreaking phase. The construction of the facility was carried out by the China Tianchen Engineering Corporation (TCC). The facility was completed within two and half years. Kazan Soda Elektrik plant was inaugurated on January 15, 2018 in presence of

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, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

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, Minister of Labour and Social Security Jülide Sarıeroğlu, Ambassador of China Yu Hongyang and many other high-profile politicians and officials.

Plant and production

The Kazan Soda Elektrik consists of three sections, namely mining, processing and

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. While the mining area is located in

Kahramankazan Kahramankazan (previously named Kazan) is a town and district of the Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, standing on the plain of Akıncı to the north west of the city of Ankara. According to 2010 census, population of the ...

district, the production plant is situated within the Sincan district of Ankara Province, northwest of Ankara. It is about north of

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. The plant's mining section supplies the processing section with the trona solution ( trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrat), which is the primary source of soda ash. For this, trona ore, laying in average at a depth of under ground, is injected with hot water through bore holes drilled, and the dissolved trona is pumped up in the form of trona solution. The plant has five processing lines. The congeneration facility produces 380

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electric power and 400 tons of steam. The annual production capacity of the plant is 2.5 million tons of soda ash (

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, Na₂CO₃) and 200,000 tons of baking soda (

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, NaHCO₃). If all of the production were exported to Europe, it would increase the key glass raw material by around 25%. Around 1,000 people are employed by the company. The trona ore reserve of Kazan Soda Elektrik is world's second largest. The plant is the biggest soda ash production facility in Europe. With both Kazan Soda and Eti Soda, the Ciner Holding and Turkey becomes the leading soda ash producer of the world. The soda ash produced has a purity grade of 99.8%, which is the purest in the world. The total annual export value of the products from Kazan Soda Elektrik and Eti Soda will be US$800 million.

References

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Habertürk ''Habertürk'' (literally: "News Turkish"), abbreviated as ''HT'', was a high-circulation Turkish newspaper. It was established on March 1, 2009 by Ciner Media Group, drawing on the brand of Ciner's Habertürk TV. It ceased publication on 5 Jul ...

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Background

Plant and production

See also

References