Lanxess-TSRC Chemical Industrial Company opens China plant

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Lanxess has opened a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China as part of its joint venture with Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation. The two companies have invested US$50,000 million in the new facility, which has created 100 new jobs.

Initial annual capacity will reach 30,000 metrics tons and is intended to meet increasing demands on the fastest growing NBR market, which is China. The plant is built on an area of approximately 40,000m2 and is located in the Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai. The most important Krynac grades of NBR will be produced in Natong.

- X7 K) ^! f$ F# U- p, D+ R“The new plant is the most modern of its kind in Asia and will address the needs of the two leading megatrends in China – rapid urbanization and growing mobility”, said Axel C. Heitmann, chairman of the board of management at Lanxess