Article: Raw materials: The key to progress in South America's PU industry?(polyurethanes)(Statistical Data Included)

Considering the relatively small size of the polyurethanes industry in Latin America, the region is quite well supplied with the basic building blocks. Admittedly, these are not the worldscale units needed for the best economics but, on paper, the region can supply almost all of its needs (see Tables 1 and 2).

Isocyanate capacities in Latin 
America, 2000 
 
Map ref./firmLocation  Capacity, ktpa 
 
TDI 
1 Isopol Camacari, Brazil  60 
2 Petroquimica 
  Rio Terceiro   Buenos Aires, Argentina   26 
3 Cydsa BayerLerma, Mexico 19 
 
MDI 
4 Bayer  Belford Roxo, Brazil   ...

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