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Bayer Installs CO2 Reactor For Polyols

by Alexander H. Tullo
June 15, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 24

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A reactor that Bayer will use to produce polyols made with CO2.
Bayer MaterialScience has installed this reactor weighing 25 metrics ton at a site in Dormagen, Germany, where it plans to make polyols incorporating 20% carbon dioxide.
Credit: Bayer
A reactor that Bayer will use to produce polyols made with CO2.

Bayer MaterialScience has installed a reactor weighing 25 metric tons at a site in Dormagen, Germany, where it plans to make polyols incorporating 20% carbon dioxide. The plant will cost $17 million and have 5,000 metric tons of capacity when it is completed next year. Bayer hopes to use the polyols in polyurethane foam mattresses.

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