Update€300m boost for German TDI/MDI - Bayer

10 September 2008 13:19  [Source: ICIS news]

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FRANKFURT (ICIS news)--Bayer MaterialScience's plans for a massive €300m ($423m) upgrade of its Germany isocyanates production are based on the introduction of new cost-saving production technology to the region, a senior company executive said on Wednesday.

BMS will consolidate and expand production at Brunsbuttel and Dormagen/Uerdingen up to 2013, polyurethanes business unit head Peter Vanacker said, as it introduces the new technology to Europe.

The “innovative” gas phase phosgenation (GPP) technology is key to the plans, he added.

As part of the project, the existing 60,000 tonne/year toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant, operated as part of the Dormagen/Uerdingen integrated production network, will be replaced with a state-of-the-art 300,000 tonne/year worldscale TDI facility.

This will complete the backward integration of the TDI chain at the site. A 200,000 tonne/year worldscale plant for base product toluene diamine (TDA) is already in place at Dormagen.

At Brunsbuttel, the 125,000 tonne/year TDI plant will be closed and the infrastructure and the existing 160,000 tonne/year capacity at the site for methyl di-p-phenylene isocyanate (MDI) will be upgraded into a worldscale, 400,000 tonne/year MDI plant,.

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By: Dede Williams
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