Tosoh awards VCM contract to Toyo; plans MDI plant.(Asia/Pacific)(vinyl chloride monomer plant; methylene di-para-phenylene isocyanate )(Toyo Engineering)(Brief Article)

Chemical Week, August, 2004

Toyo Engineering says it has received a contract from Tosoh to build a previously announced vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant at Nanyo, Japan (CW, May 5, p. 16). The plant will have a nameplate capacity of 600,000 m.t./year, and be completed in fall 2005 at a cost of [yen] 15 billion ($138 million).

It will increase Tosoh's VCM capacity to 1.67 million m.t./year, making the company Asia's largest producer of VCM. The complex will include new chlor-alkali and ethylene dichloride plants that will feed the additional VCM capacity. Tosoh will ship some of the VCM to feed a planned 110,000-m.t./year polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant at Guangzhou, China that it is planning in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corp. Separately, Tosoh says it will soon begin a study with...

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