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Mitsubishi / Marubeni build Chinese PMMA unit
Japan´s Mitsubishi Rayon Co. Ltd. and Marubeni Corp. plan to build a new 40,000 t/y plant for injection moulded PMMA in China. The joint venture Nantong Rayon Chemical is scheduled to go onstream in Jiangsu province near Shanghai in autumn 2003, with product to be sold on the Chinese market. A Mitsubishi jv with engineering polymers producer Ticona is building a 60,000 t/y plant for POM at the same site, with start-up slated for 2004.
13.09.2001 Plasteurope.com [16493]
Published on 13.09.2001