Bayer Investment

Bayer MaterialScience is set to invest some $120 million into its Baytown, Texas, site. Baytown, which celebrates 40 years of manufacturing success this year, is the company’s largest manufacturing facility in the United States and is a keystone of Bayer MaterialScience’s global manufacturing strategy.

The planned U.S. $120 million investment includes: Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI): environmental upgrades, reliability improvements and minor de-bottlenecking.

Toluene diisocyanate (TDI): improved process technology, environmental upgrades, and energy efficiency and reliability improvements that will increase productivity. Polycarbonate: reliability upgrades and quality improvements for advanced optical applications.

Additional investments are designed to improve the reliability of the infrastructure throughout the site.

For more information, contact Bill Allan, Bayer MaterialScience, 100 Bayer Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15205, 412-777-2000, E-mail: bill.allan@bayer.com, Web: www.bayerus.com.