Toray Malaysia to turn around ABS unit end-Oct

17 October 2007 05:28  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Toray Plastics Malaysia (TPM), southeast Asia's largest acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) producer, plans to turn around two of its lines at end-October, a company source said on Wednesday.

The maintenance was expected to last for about three weeks and the two lines with a combined capacity of 110,000 tonnes/year would restart in mid-November, he added.

The company operates four ABS lines at Prai, Penang state, each with a capacity of  55,000 tonnes/year.

Toray will expand its Malaysian ABS output by 110,000 tonnes/year by end-March or April 2008. The new line will produce 70,000 tonnes/year of regular resins and 40,000 tonnes/year of transparent resins.

The company also operates a 60,000 tonne/year polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) unit in Kuantan, Pahang state, in a joint venture with BASF.

By: Clive Ong
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