Bayer MaterialScience intends to expand annual capacity of TDI production facility in Shanghai to 300,000 tons
Bayer MaterialScience AG intends to boost the annual capacity of the planned plant for producing toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) in Shanghai from 160,000 to 300,000 tons. According to the company, this Bayer subgroup is harnessing an innovative process technology in the construction that, among other things, enables investment and energy costs to be dramatically reduced. Bayer MaterialScience is planning to invest a total of around US$ 1.8 billion at the Shanghai site by 2009.
The integrated Shanghai site is intended to become a central base in Bayer MaterialScience's production network in the Asia-Pacific region. The approval procedures for expanding capacity have already been initiated. The company intends to use part of its production capacity to supply the fast-growing markets in Eastern Europe and the Middle East until new capacities are in place.
Bayer MaterialScience expects its newly developed TDI process technology to cut investment costs by some 20 percent compared with conventional processes. The process - known as gas phase phosgenation - has already been successfully trialed in a company pilot plant with an annual capacity of 30,000 tons.
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