BASF’s Engineering Plastics business plans to expand its North American manufacturing operations with the installation of compounding capacity at the company’s Altamira site in Mexico, to supply to customers based in Mexico and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Altamira is the company’s major production site for Styrenics, and therefore already houses the infrastructure and people with the requisite technical familiarity with polymer and compounding processes that meet high standards. Start up of production commences in Q2 of 2006, of BASF’s engineering plastics to be compounded including various nylon 6, nylon 6,6 and PBT resins.
BASF’s other North American engineering plastics compounding facilities in Wyandotte and Sparta will continue their normal operations. In the last three years, BASF has made three acquisitions– Honeywell’s engineering plastics business, Ticona ’s nylon 6,6 business and LATI’s major North American engineering plastics business
23-Jan-06 
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