Solvay to boost US polysulphone polymer capacity

19 March 2003 22:35  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (CNI)--Solvay Advanced Polymers announced plans Wednesday to increase production of Udel polysulphone resins by 15% at its Marietta, Ohio plant and sulphone monomer by 10% at Augusta, Georgia.

The company did not disclose specifics on the cost or capacities of the expansions.

But, in an announcement, Solvay quoted George Corbin, business manager for the sulphone polymers business, noting this marks the second year in a row for "significant" expansion projects at these two plants.

Corbin said the company has seen a "rising, unmet need for lower-colour polysulphones in several markets" and, as a result, has committed a "sizeable portion of its research and development efforts to meeting this need."

Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, Solvay Advanced Polymers is a unit of Solvay America, the US holding company of Belgium's Solvay.

By: Gary Taylor
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