Wacker Chemie AG, a leading producer of state-of-the-art binders and polymeric additives, is expanding its existing vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions production facilities at its Calvert City site in the United States.
The Munich-based chemical company is set to add a new reactor with an annual capacity of 85,000 metric tons at the US site, with an investment of an amount of around €50 million in the site’s capacity and infrastructure, Wacker said in a press release.
The new expansion is expected to be the largest of its kind in the US and is scheduled to be running by mid-2015.
Rudolf Staudigl, CEO of Wacker Chemie AG said, “Capacity expansion is essential if we are to meet our customers’ demand for our dispersions over the coming years. After extending our dispersions capacities at our sites in South Korea and China in the course of the last two years, we have now pushed ahead with expanding our production in the US, too. Thus, we will be able to keep pace with future market growth and strengthen our leading position in VAE dispersions.”
Wacker has further added an ethylene pipeline to the Calvert City facility for increasing the long-term reliability of raw material supply at the site.John Fotheringham, vice president of dispersions at Wacker said, “This investment in our continuous raw-material supply is an important step: it not only makes a key contribution to supply security in the years to come, but also to the cost-efficient production of our dispersions.”
With over 50 years’ experience in the development and production of vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer dispersions Wacker is a global technology and market leader in the field. VAE dispersions are popular binders in the construction, paints, coatings, and adhesives industries. (GK)
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