MOSCOW (MRC) -- Nippon Shokubai said it is planning to increase production capacities for its functional monomer VEAA and functional polymers EPOCROS and EPOMIN at sites in Japan, in order to meet strong growth in global demand, as per Apic-online.
VEAA production capacity will be raised at the company's Himeji plant. Mechanical completion is scheduled for December 2019.
Nippon Shokubai will also increase EPOCROS production capacity at Himeji, with completion expected in August 2018.
At the company's Kawasaki facility, EPOMIN produc-tion capacity will boosted. Mechanical completion is anticipated in September 2019. Nippon did not give the capacities of the plants.
As MRC informed earlier, in November 2015, Nippon Shokubai Co announced that Nippon Shokubai Europe, a subsidiary in Belgium, had held a groundbreaking ceremony for new superabsorbent polymer (SAP) plant and acrylic acid (AA) plant in its plant site in Antwerp, Belgium.
Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. provides ethylene oxide, acrylic, superabsorbents, performance chemicals, and catalyst and green energy materials. It operates through three segments: Basic Chemicals, Functional Chemicals, and Environment & Catalysts.
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