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Sumitomo Boosts PMMA For Displays

by Jean-François Tremblay
October 18, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 42

Sumitomo Chemical will build a third polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) facility in Singapore. The new plant, scheduled to come on-line in 2012, will boost the company’s production capacity in the city-state by 50%, to 150,000 metric tons per year. Demand for the material, which is used to make light-guide plates for liquid-crystal-display television sets, is growing at 8% annually, the company says. Sumitomo is already the world’s largest PMMA producer, and the expansion will bring its total capacity to 320,000 metric tons annually.

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