Lanxess says it will invest ?10 million ($14.4 million) to expand solution styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) and neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) capacity at its Orange, TX site by 20,000 m.t./year. Completion is expected by the third quarter of 2012. The site already has the capac- ity to produce about 25,000 m.t./year of SSBR and about 250,000 m.t./ year of Nd-PBR. "This additional capacity will serve the global demand for high performance rubber, which is expected to grow annually by close to 10% in the coming years," says Joachim Grub, global head of performance butadiene rubber, at Lanxess.
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