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Bayer starts up MDI facility

Bayer MaterialScience A.G. said it has started production at its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate facility, located at its production complex in Shanghai, China.

The plant has the capacity to produce 350,000 metric tons of the polyurethane curative per year.

Bayer also has broken ground on a 250,000-tons-a-year toluene diisocyanate plant at the same site that is scheduled to come on stream in 2010.

Bridgestone opens carbon black site

Mexico Carbon Manufacturing S.A. de C.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., has opened a carbon black plant in Mexico.

The facility will have ...

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