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Kuraray to increase EVOH capacity at Antwerp
The Japanese Kuraray group – Europe: Eval Europe NV, (B-2070 Zwijndrecht) – plans to double capacity for its “Eval“ EVOH at its Antwerp site to a total of 24,000 t/y in the period from January 2002 to autumn 2003. Including production from its US and Japanese facilities the world market leader for ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers actually has a total capacity of 45,000 t/y. Due to the enormous demand there are already plans to push up EVOH production in the US by another 24,000 t/y.
05.07.2001 Plasteurope.com [16622]
Published on 05.07.2001