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Wacker Expands In Asian Markets

by Marc S. Reisch
March 12, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 11

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Wacker’s existing VAE plant in Nanjing, China.
Wacker’s existing vinyl acetate-ethylene plant in Nanjing, China.
Credit: Wacker Chemie
Wacker’s existing VAE plant in Nanjing, China.

Wacker Chemie plans to invest $52 million to add a 60,000-metric-ton-per-year vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer dispersions reactor and a 20,000-metric-ton polyvinyl acetate solid resins plant at its site in Nanjing, China. Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2013. The firm also recently expanded its technical center in Pangyo Techno Valley, in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea.

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