Bayer builds 170 million Euro TDA plant
14 May 2002
Bayer is expanding its production capacity for TDA (toluene diamine), an intermediate in the production of polyurethanes, by investing around 170 million Euro in a new plant at Dormagen.
Production should start during the second half of 2003 when the new facility, which has a capacity of approx. 200,000 metric tons of TDA per year, will replace Bayer's current plants.
A new production process will be used in the new plant following its deployment in a similar plant at Bayer's Baytown site in the US.
Construction work in Dormagen has already started; two production buildings, a tank farm, an on-site waste gas incinerator and an operations centre are taking shape on the site, which covers an area equivalent to three football pitches.
In the future, it is anticipated that Bayer's sites at Leverkusen and Brunsbüttel amongst others will be supplied with TDA from the new site.
