Clariant, a Swiss sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, has announced on Dec 6 its decision to shut down its Romanian bioethanol factory in Podari (Dolj County) amid ongoing losses which no longer justify continued production.
Swiss-held Clariant upholds its plan to start bioethanol production by the end of 2021, four years after beginning the construction of the EUR140 million plant of Podari, near Craiova.