Degussa Breaks Ground Polymerization and Compounding Plant in Shanghai
Year:2007 ISSUE:23
COLUMN:PROJECT NEWS
Click:224 DateTime:Aug.16,2007
Degussa Breaks Ground Polymerization and Compounding Plant in
Shanghai
On July 26th, 2007 Degussa GmbH of Germany held a groundbreaking
ceremony for a specialty polyamides polymerization and
compounding plant in Shanghai. It is said by the head of the High
Performance Polymers (HP) Business Unit of Degussa this
investment in the single-digit million euro range will enable
Degussa to substantially expand its presence in the attractive
Chinese growth market. The plant is scheduled for completion in
late January 2008, and deliveries of its products to Asian
customers are to start as early as the end of the first quarter
of 2008.
The products stemming from the new plant will allow the
company to both serve existing markets and open up new niche
applications. In the process, the new production facility, which
is being built at Degussa’s multi-user site (MUSC) at Shanghai
Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), will enable HP to supply its
customers in China and the surrounding region with various
specialty polyamides and compounds based on regional raw
materials.
MUSC is a site at which the activities of differing Degussa
business units are located. Degussa took its first production
facility into operation at SCIP in June 2006 in the form of a
polyester and colorant production facility. (CCR2006, No.20)
Degussa is now planning to erect an integrated facility for the
production of methylmethacrylate specialties as well as the
respective methylmethacrylate precursors at MUSC by 2009.
"The new polymerization and compounding plant will be the
location’s fourth altogether, making MUSC one of Degussa’s most
important production sites in Asia," states Degussa Specialty
Chemicals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and head of MUSC.