DSM to increase engineering plastics compounding capacity in China by 50%

Jiangyin/PR China – DSM will expand its engineering plastics compounding capacity at the site in Jiangyin. The investment will increase the capacity of the compounding plant by 50% and the added capacity will be operational towards the end of 2008. This comes as an enhancement to the existing capacity, which was doubled in 2006 with the opening of this new greenfield site. DSM is currently building a world-scale polyamide 6 polymerization plant at the same site, which will start production in 2008.