Japan-based Ube Industries Ltd. has announced that it will invest in additional nylon manufacturing capacity at its subsidiary, UCE (UBE Corporation Europe S.A.U.) in Castellon, Spain, in order to meet the growing global demand for high added-value nylon.
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The expansion, as reported, will add 40,000 tonnes to make the total capacity reach 70,000 tonnes per year. The new facility is expected to start operations in the beginning of February 2018. The company is also building a new compounding facility in the same location, which is expected to start operations in August next year.
The new nylon plant, which utilizes UBE proprietary technology, can manufacture various types of medium and high viscosity nylons and copolymers for technical applications such as the automotive industry, food packaging, the manufacture of industrial monofilaments, fishing nets, etc.
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The Group is one of the largest nylon producers in the world for engineering applications, manufacturing nylon 6 resin at three plants worldwide with a total annual production capacity of 158,000 tonnes. By region, the production capacity is 53,000 tonnes in Japan, 75,000 tonnes in Thailand, and 30,000 tonnes in Spain (70,000 after 2018). In particular, nylon manufactured by the UBE Group has an outstanding reputation for quality and processing stability for extrusion applications such as packaging films.
