Covestro doubles production capacities for high-tech plastic at Shanghai site

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Shanghai, China: To satisfy growing demand for polycarbonates in Asia, Covestro has announced that it is doubling production capacities for the high-tech plastic from 200,000 to 400,000 metric tons per year at its site in Shanghai, China. Two new world-scale production lines for polycarbonate resins were inaugurated there on Wednesday, with state-of-the-art technologies and energy saving processes. This thrusts Covestro into becoming the world's largest producer of such resins.