Bayer MaterialScience hits resin production milestone.Bayer MaterialScience's Bitterfeld Bitterfeld (bĭ`tərfĕlt), city (1994 pop. 17,030), Saxony-Anhalt district, E Germany, on the Mulde River. It is an industrial center and rail junction, but industrial development has led it to be one of the most polluted cities in Europe. facility in Germany has produced 500,000 tons of coating resin resin, any of a class of amorphous solids or semisolids. Resins are found in nature and are chiefly of vegetable origin. They are typically light yellow to dark brown in color; tasteless; odorless or faintly aromatic; translucent or transparent; brittle, fracturing . The company has reported that in the past year, production has increased by 12%. Bayer MaterialScience Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) is an independent subgroup within Bayer AG. It was created as part of the restructuring of Bayer AG from the former business group Bayer Polymers, with certain of its activities being spun off to Lanxess AG. produces a total of 191 coating raw materials at Bitterfeld, including 26 developed in the past year alone. "We are very pleased to have reached this major production milestone so quickly," said Gottfried Plumpe, member of the board of management of Bayer MaterialScience. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Plumpe, six years after Bayer's coating resin plan came on stream, the site produced 250,000 tons of coating resin. Four years later, the facility has reached a volume of a half million tons. "This extremely positive growth is a clear indication of the demand for our high-performance coating raw materials," he added. |
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