Ryongop Joint Venture Company was founded in June Juche 102 (2013) to produce and export furfural.
Furfural, C5H4O2, is a colourless, highly combustible and volatile oily liquid. This organic compound is widely applied in chemical, oil processing, metal, machine-building, electric-power, pharmaceutical and light industries, and agriculture as raw and other materials. It is used as additives for refining and fodder, as well as materials for binding, growth promotion, antiseptics, germicide, disinfectants, herbicide and insulators.
Furfural serves as a basic material for over 1 600 products, 200 odd medicines among them.
The company has established production lines by means of vegetable materials such as corncobs and cornstalks easily available in the country.
It produces furfural through the automated and flowlined processes of raw materials grinding and feeding, acid-diluting, hydrolyzing, simple distillation, neutralizing and refining.
It is equipped with advanced analyzing and measuring facilities to ensure scientific analysis and inspection of its products to conform to the international quality standard.
Furfural produced at the company is 99.98% in purity, an international standard for export.
The company is going to establish additional processes of producing organic compound fertilizerswith by-products of the existing processes.
