Advertisement

This site uses cookies to enhance your user experience. By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to our COOKIE POLICY.

ACCEPT AND CLOSE

If you have an ACS member number, please enter it here so we can link this account to your membership. (optional)

ACS values your privacy. By submitting your information, you are gaining access to C&EN and subscribing to our weekly newsletter. We use the information you provide to make your reading experience better, and we will never sell your data to third party members.

The key to knowledge is in your (nitrile-gloved) hands

Already an ACS Member?  

Basic

$0 Community Associate

ACS’s Basic Package keeps you connected with C&EN and ACS.

  • Access to 6 digital C&EN articles per month on cen.acs.org
  • Weekly delivery of the C&EN Essential newsletter
JOIN NOW
Standard

$80 Regular Members & Society Affiliates

ACS’s Standard Package lets you stay up to date with C&EN, stay active in ACS, and save.

Eligibility restrictions apply. Review ACS Membership Packages to see if you qualify.

JOIN NOW
Premium

$160 Regular Members & Society Affiliates
$55 Graduate Students
$25 Undergraduate Students

ACS’s Premium Package gives you full access to C&EN and everything the ACS Community has to offer.

  • Unlimited access to C&EN’s daily news coverage on cen.acs.org
  • Weekly delivery of the C&EN Magazine in print or digital format
  • Access to our Chemistry News by C&EN mobile app
  • Significant discounts on registration for most ACS-sponsored meetings
ACS offers discounts for some countries outside the United States. This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable.

JOIN NOW

Thank you!

Your account has been created successfully, and a confirmation email is on the way.

Your username is now your ACS ID.

ENJOY UNLIMITED ACCES TO C&EN

Polymers

Huntsman and BASF put final touches on MDI projects

by Alexander H. Tullo
July 23, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 26
Advertisement

Most Popular in Materials

 

Huntsman's new polyurethane chemical splitter in Geismar, Louisiana.
Credit: Huntsman
Huntsman's new polyurethane chemical splitter in Geismar, Louisiana

Two polyurethane chemical makers are wrapping up large methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) investments in the US. In Geismar, Louisiana, Huntsman has started up a $180 million splitter, which separates crude MDI into polymeric MDI and MDI isomers. Meanwhile, BASF is moving forward with the final phase of an MDI expansion program, also in Geismar, that will double its capacity there. The overall project, slated for completion in 2025, will cost $780 million and include an MDI splitter. The first phase, an MDI synthesis unit, opened in 2020.

Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
Copyright © 2024 American Chemical Society

You might also like...

Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds
Covestro to build complex in China
Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds
BASF completes isocyanates plant in Louisiana
Covestro delays polyurethane plant

Article:

This article has been sent to the following recipient:

0 /1 FREE ARTICLES LEFT THIS MONTH Remaining
Chemistry matters. Join us to get the news you need.
GET MORE
GET MORE