A plant manufacturing nylon and specialty chemicals has been established by Ube Engineering Plastics in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This will enhance the nylon generating capacity for the automotive market over 2011.
Ube City is expected to enhance the capacity of polycarbonate diol – a polyurethane feedstock by about seven million pounds at its Castello plant in Spain by the beginning of 2012.
The plant located at Sao Paulo manufactures feedstock caprolactam, apart from nylon resins. The plant has a yearly capacity of manufacturing about 50 million pounds of nylon. The expansion of the company is expected to include a fresh capacity of 11 million pounds at a plant in Rayong which is located in Thailand.
Fibre2fashion News Desk-India