PP engineering compounds will grow from BASF takeover

From: High Performance Plastics | Date: April 1, 1994 | Copyright information

BASF is likely to give top priority to boosting technical polypropylene (PP) compounds, after completing the takeover of propathene (PP polymer) and Procom (PP compounds) plants and businesses at Wilton, UK, and Rozenburg, The Netherlands. With these two additional PP sources, each with a capacity of 150 000 tonnes/year, in good locations, based on its own gas-phase technology, and with complementary markets, the new arrangement transforms BASF's position in the European PP market a...

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