Ticona opens world's largest acefal plant

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Ticona has opened the world's largest acetal production plant, an operation with more than 300 million pounds of annual capacity in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the release Sulzbach, Germany-based Ticona held an opening ceremony Sept. 27 at the new plant-which required almost 18 million pounds of steel, almost 500 miles of cable and 49 miles of piping. Construction began in late 2008 and eventually involved about 1,200 workers Ticona officials decided to place the massive plant in Frankfurt after an airport expansion required them to relocate an existing acetal plant in Kelsterbach, Germany.