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News Release from: Sabic Innovative Plastics
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 October 2006
Extreme-performance resins to be made in
Europe
GE Plastics is to invest Eur 62 million to retrofit its Lexan resin facility in Bergen op Zoom for the manufacture of Lexan EXL, SLX, DMX and XHT copolymer resins.
To provide a European source of supply for its line of extreme Lexan polycarbonate (PC) resins while boosting overall capacity by approximately 300%, GE Plastics is to expand production of these specialty products beyond the USA The company will invest Eur 62 million to retrofit its Lexan resin facility in Bergen op Zoom for the manufacture of Lexan EXL, SLX, DMX and XHT copolymer resins, giving European customers the advantage of shorter delivery times
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 26 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"GE's extreme resins - each with a set of specialised properties - offer customers new ways in which to differentiate their products and even create applications they couldn't produce previously", said Heiner Markhoff, Vice President of GE Plastics Europe.
"We're making a major capital investment to support expected growth of our Lexan resin specials at many of our European customers and worldwide".
"By adding significant production capacity in The Netherlands, we aim to expedite delivery to European customers so they can accelerate time to market".
The project will be completed in several phases, with the first production expected in summer 2007.
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