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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Mitsu-bishi Chemical
Corp. (MCC) said it will set up a new pilot facility for carbon fiber reinforced
thermoplastic (CFRTP) in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, according to Apic-online.
MCC, with support
from the Industrial Technology Center of Fukai Prefecture and leveraging
technological synergy within the MCC Group, recently established technology that
enables "highly efficient" manufacturing of "extremely high-quality" CFRTP, MCC
noted.
In the future, MCC will market the product as a new series in its
Kyron thermoplastic composite brand and offer it to the Japanese CFRTP market,
which until now has relied mainly on imports.
As MRC reported earlier,
in December 2020, MCC acquired a ‘greenfield’ property at a large integrated
site on the Mississippi River in Geismar, Louisiana, the US. It also plans to
advance its feasibility study for the design and construction of a 350,000mt
Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) plant, which will be based on its proprietary ALPHA
technology. Currently, the project is in the early engineering stage and the
final investment decision (FiD) is expected to take place in early 2022. If the
project gets approval, the plant would commence production in 2025.
The
main application, consuming approximately 75% MMA, is in the production of
polymethyl methacrylate acrylic plastics (PMMA). Methyl methacrylate is also
used to produce methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene copolymer (MBS), used as a
modifier for polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's overall PVC production reached 891,200 tonnes in the first eleven
months of 2020, down by 0.3% year on year. However, two producers managed to
increase their PVC output. |
