Bayer.Bayer, Pittsburgh, PA, dedicated its $150 million facility for the manufacture of toluene diisocyanate Toluene diisocyanate (TDI) is an aromatic diisocyanate. It is produced for reaction with polyols to form polyurethanes. It exists in two isomers, 2,4-TDI (CAS: 584-84-9) and 2,6-TDI (CAS: 91-08-7). at the company's Baytown, TX polymers and chemicals manufacturing complex. Bayer also dedicated the world's first facility that produces polyether pol·y·e·ther n. A polymer in which the repeating unit contains two carbon atoms linked by an oxygen atom. polyols, a polyurethane polyurethane Any of a class of very versatile polymers that are made into flexible and rigid foams, fibres, elastomers (elastic polymers), surface coatings, and adhesives. raw material, in a continuous process. To achieve this, Bayer's Polyurethanes polyurethanes (pŏl'ēy  r`əthānz), group of plastics that may be either thermosetting or thermoplastic. Polyurethane can be made into both flexible and rigid foams. Division converted a reactor at its Channelview, TX site to operate the company's proprietary Impact catalyst technology in a continuous production process.
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