(ICIS news)--Major chlor-alkali producer AkzoNobel’s Ibbenbueren facility in Germany is back on stream this week following a successful restart undertaken on the weekend of 29-30 August, a company source confirmed on Monday. “The plant is back up and running well,” a source close to caustic soda operations said, before adding that the product was “not at full rates yet”. The facility, which produces caustic soda, chlorine and hydrochloric acid (HCl), was taken offline more than five weeks ago following a major power failure caused by an electrical storm in the area. The restart of the chlorine/caustic soda unit has enabled Akzo to lift force majeure on deliveries of chemically pure, or burner grade, HCl, a company source close to HCl operations said, with full levels of production and inventories expected to be restored next week. Akzo had been forced into the market for chemically pure HCl during the plant outage in order to supply customers. By-product, or technical grade, HCl production from downstream applications was not affected as Akzo had continued to supply chlorine sourced from other production sites to its customer (also located at Ibbenbueren), the source added. HCl can either be produced by burning chlorine or as a by-product of various chlor-alkali and fluorocarbon procesess. 氯碱生产商AkzoNobel位于德国伊本贝尔区的装置已经恢复并且运行良好。该装置主要生产烧碱，液氯和盐酸，5周前停车。