Bayer MaterialScience AG.Bayer MaterialScience AG, Leverkusen, Germany, has completed the expansion of its production facilities for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, most often abbreviated as MDI, is an aromatic diisocyanate. It exists in three isomers, 2,2'-MDI, 2,4'-MDI, and 4,4'-MDI. The 4,4' isomer is most practically useful, and is also known as Pure MDI. (MDI (1) (Multiple Document Interface) A Windows function that allows an application to display and lets the user work with more than one document at the same time. ) in Tarragona, Spain, by 50,000 tons a year to an annual capacity of 150,000 tons. As a result, the company has a global production capacity of almost 1.1 million tons per year. Plant capacity at Tarragona for the intermediates carbon monoxide (CO) and methylene diphenyl diamine di·am·ine n. Any of various chemical compounds containing two amino groups, especially hydrazine. Noun 1. diamine - any organic compound containing two amino groups (MDA (1) (Monochrome Display Adapter) The first IBM PC monochrome video display standard for text. Due to its lack of graphics, MDA cards were often replaced with Hercules cards, which provided both text and graphics. See PC display modes and Hercules Graphics. ) has also been expanded. MDI production facilities in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, were also expanded by 36,000 tons to a capacity of 200,000 tons a year. At its integrated Shanghai site, Bayer MaterialScience is currently building world-scale production facilities capable of producing 350,000 tons of MDI each year. The facilities are to start operating in 2008 and will mainly supply customers in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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