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Blast Shuts Polyvinyl Alcohol Plant
September 19, 2005
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 83, Issue 38
Following the explosion of a tank that was part of its vinyl acetate plant in Okayama, Japan, Kuraray has stopped production of the water-soluble polymer polyvinyl alcohol at the site. There were no injuries. Okayama has annual capacity for 96,000 metric tons of polyvinyl alcohol, almost half of Kuraray's global capacity of 214,000 metric tons and about one-sixth of world output. A Kuraray spokesman says the company does not know when the plant will restart.
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