Cyclics Completes CBT Plant;Shortlists Sites

摘要

Cyclics (Schenectady,NY) says it will select a site by year-end for a previously reported project to build a second production plant for cyclic butylene terephthalate (CBT) resin (CW,Nov.3,2004,p.16).The plant will have a capacity of 25,000 m.t.-50,000 m.t./year;cost euro60 million-euro100 million (us80 million-us134 million);and be completed by 2009,the company says.Cyclics made the announcement at last week's formal inauguration of its first-and the world's first-CBT plant,located at BASF's Schwarzheide,Germany site.