LANXESS opens Asia’s most modern butyl rubber plant in Singapore

By admin July 12, 2013 12:26 pm IST

LANXESS inaugurated its new butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island in Singapore. The specialty chemicals company has invested about €400 million in the plant, which will have a capacity of 100,000 tonnes. The plant will create about 160 highly qualified local jobs. The facility is the most modern of its kind in Asia and will produce premium halobutyl rubber as well as regular butyl rubber. The newly opened plant in Singapore joins existing butyl rubber plants in Sarnia, Canada, and Zwijndrecht, Belgium. This means that the specialty chemicals company now has state-of-the-art facilities on three continents. The butyl rubber facility in Singapore went into operation in the first quarter of 2013 and is being ramped up gradually. Commercial production will start in the third quarter of this year. The facility is expected to achieve full capacity in 2015.

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