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BASF Will Double Plasticizer Output

by Michael McCoy
August 1, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 31

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Credit: BASF
Although demand initially came from toy manufacturers, DINCH is increasingly being used in medical applications and food packaging, BASF says.
BASF plans to double capacity for Hexamoll DINCH, a phthalate-free plasticizer, at its headquarters complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Although demand initially came from toy and leisure article manufacturers, DINCH is increasingly being used in medical applications and food packaging, BASF says.
Credit: BASF
Although demand initially came from toy manufacturers, DINCH is increasingly being used in medical applications and food packaging, BASF says.

BASF plans to double capacity for Hexamoll DINCH, a phthalate-free plasticizer, at its headquarters complex in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Through construction of a second plant, DINCH capacity will rise to 200,000 metric tons per year. The plasticizer, 1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid diisononyl ester, debuted in 2002. BASF quadrupled capacity to 100,000 metric tons in 2007.

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