Bayer MaterialScience closes MDI Facility at New Martinsville, W.Va., USA
"The economies of scale are changing in the MDI marketplace, and Bayer is consolidating production to several world-scale plants, including its plant in Baytown, Texas," said Jim Covington, New Martinsville General Plant Manager.
The New Martinsville facility will continue to produce other isocyanates and polyols, coatings raw materials and thermoplastic polyurethanes, Covington said. Isocyanates and polyols are combined to make flexible and rigid polyurethane foams, which are used in furniture, automotive, construction, appliance and sporting goods applications.
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