Evonik Industries will build a plant in Marl, Germany, for producing functionalized polybutadiene. This liquid polybutadiene (HTPB) is used primarily in sealing compounds for insulating glass windows and in adhesives for automobile manufacture. With this plant, which should go on stream in the fall of 2012, Evonik will be able to offer hydroxyl-functionalized polybutadiene for the first time to its customers in the adhesives and sealant industries.
Evonik will market HTPB as “Polyvest HT”, thus rounding off its polybutadiene product range to include one more functionalized type. Today, Evonik already is a notable manufacturer of liquid unfunctionalized polybutadienes. By investing in the plant, Evonik is expanding its existing service range of polyesters, polymethacrylates, amorphous poly-alpha-olefins, and liquid butadienes for the adhesive and sealant industries. The Group is therefore in a position to offer, from a single source, solutions for a variety of applications in this market.
Evonik Industries AG
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