(Fibre2fashion) -- Tongsuh Petrochemical, based in South Korean, will begin commercial production of a new line at its Acrylonitrile (ACN) plant in January 2013. Tongsuh is adding line No.4 at its Ulsan based ACN plant, which will have a production capacity of 245,000 tons per year.
Tongsuh has an ACN capacity of 315,000 tons per annum and with the addition of the new ACN line in 2013 will reach 560,000 tons per year.
Acrylonitrile is a chemical compound which is used for the manufacture of useful plastics.
Acrylonitrile is used principally as a monomer to prepare polyacrylonitrile, a homopolymer, or several important copolymers such as styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA) and other synthetic rubbers such as acrylonitrile butadiene (NBR).
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