Lanxess says it plans to invest ?30 million ($40 million) to boost produc- tion in Brazil, including construction of two plants at the company's site at Porto Feliz. One of the plants will produce the company's nylon and polybutylene terephthalate engineering plastics. The facility will have an initial capacity of 20,000 m.t./year and is due online in the middle of 2013. The second plant will produce rubber additives and curing bladders, and will be operated by Lanxess' Rhein Chemie (Mannheim, Germany) subsidiary. The plant will produce 2,000 m.t./year of rubber additives and 170,000 bladders/year, and it will start up in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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