Chlorinemade here
The Green Chemicals Consortium is developing a Chlor-Alkali facility at Saldanha Bay: a regional source of chlorine for potable water, and of caustic soda and calcium chloride that South Africa currently imports.
- Feedstock
- Velddrif salt, 40 km from site
- Site
- Saldanha Bay, Western Cape
- Outputs
- Cl₂ · NaOH · CaCl₂ · CO₂ · H₂
- Status
- Bankable feasibility study
01The distance problem
Chlorine for the Western Cape is made 1 500 km away
It begins as salt shipped a thousand nautical miles in the wrong direction. In 2022 that chain came close to failing, and the region came close to running out.
Today
2 500 km +- Walvis BaySalt loaded for shipping
- 1 000nmiBy seaRichards BayLanded, then transferred to road
- Trucked dailyChloorkop, GautengChlorine produced, 1 500 km from the market it serves
- 1 500kmBy roadCape TownDelivered to the Western Cape
02Read on
The rest of the case
01Our proposalThe plant, its five outputs, and the economic case for building it here.02ProductsChlorine, caustic soda, calcium chloride and food-grade CO₂ in detail.03The consortiumThe four principals carrying the project to bankable feasibility.04Our missionSustainable, low-carbon and secure, and what each of those commits to.
Securing the Western Cape's chlorine supply
The consortium is completing the business plan and bankable feasibility study for the Saldanha Bay facility. Partners, offtakers, funders and government stakeholders are welcome to make contact.