Polycarbonate output to be doubled
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Bayer AG is undertaking an $860-million expansion program that will make the German manufacturer the biggest producer of polycarbonates within the next five years. The expansion will double the output of its Makrolon polycarbonate resins from 650,000 t/y to 1.3 million tons by 2005. Capacity at its facility in Baytown, TX, would reach 350,000 tons by 2005, as well as for its Map Ta Phut plant in Thailand. The proposed unit in Shanghai, China, would go from 50,000 t/y in 2003 to 100,000 t/y by the end of 2004.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2001
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Resin plant set for China
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Dow Chemical Co announced in Jan 2001 that it had received approval from the government of the Republic of China to start construction of a 40,000- metric-ton/year plant for converted epoxy resins at the company's existing site in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province. The epoxy resin facility, which shares the site with two other plants also under construction, is expected to start production during the first half of 2003.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2001
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New plant makes cycloolefin copolymer
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Ticona GmbH has started operating a 30,000-mt/yr plant at its Ruhrchemie site in Oberhausen, Germany, to manufacture Topas, a cycloolefin copolymer (COC). The company claims that the Topas COCs it produces offer high clairty, transparency, stuffness, strength, low moisture absorption and excellent dimensional stability. They are polymerized from nonbornene and ethylene using metallocene catalysts.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2000
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