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More polymers for Lanxess Lanxess is wrapping up the first stage of a program to expand capacity for neodymium-catalyzed polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) at plants in Port Jérôme, France, and Orange, Texas. The company will modify existing lines to enable production of multiple grades, including Nd-PBR, lithium-PBR, and solution styrene-butadiene rubber on the same line. In the second and third stages of the project, more production lines will be modified to manufacture Nd-PBR and to increase capacity for solution styrene butadiene rubber. Separately, Lanxess will add capacity in Wuxi, China, for compounding its Durethan nylon and Pocan polyester semicrystalline plastics in the first quarter of next year. Lanxess will produce about 20,000 metric tons per year of the compounded plastics at the site. |
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