Ube Chemicals Asia will add new caprolactam (CPL) capacity totaling to 20,000 tons per annum and also will shut down its existing plant for maintenance in the month of November/December 2011.
A company official told fibre2fashion that, UBE will add new 20,000 tons per annum CPL capacity to its plant based in Rayong - Thailand which will take its production to 130,000 tons per annum.
He also added that the new capacity will be operational somewhere in November/December 2011. A scheduled maintenance shutdown will also take place at the existing 110,000 CPL plant in the same period.