Bayer: Three-year TDI consolidation process completed
Bayer MaterialScience is planning to open yet another world scale production facility in Caojing, China. It is scheduled to commence operation in 2009 with a capacity of 160,000 tons per year. The project is part of a total investment package amounting to some USD 1.8 billion for the Caojing site. The new facility will be equipped with the latest technology, feature an innovative energy management concept and boast resource-conserving production processes.
"By concentrating our capacities at high-output facilities with innovative processes, we are ideally equipped for the future as market leader and can above all manufacture our products cost-efficiently. We are now in a position to reliably support the growth of our customers with superior quality products and expand our leading role in the world market thanks to optimized cost structures," remarked Peter Vanacker, head of the Polyurethanes Business Unit at Bayer MaterialScience.
The closing of the TDI facility in New Martinsville, USA, marks the last step in the consolidation process. Over the last three years, production activities were also discontinued at plants in Antwerp (Belgium), Coatzacoalcos (Mexico), Leverkusen (Germany) and Niihama (Japan).
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