Bayer MaterialScience builds production plant for carbon nanotubes in Chempark Leverkusen
"Bayer MaterialScience AG is investing in a key technology of the future that will open up a broad range of new applications for us," said Joe Ventura, business development manager, Bayer MaterialScience LLC.
A pilot plant with an annual capacity of 60 tons has been in operation in Laufenburg in southern Germany since 2007. Production involves a catalytic process in which the carbon nanotubes are obtained from a carbon-containing gas at elevated temperature in a reactor.
Bayer MaterialScience LLC recently obtained regulatory approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell Baytubes®, its multi-wall carbon nanotubes, in the U.S., reinforcing the company’s role as one of the world’s leading suppliers of carbon nanotubes. The approval covers Baytubes® C 150 P and HP grades that are currently produced in the Laufenburg plant.
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