China is one of the fastest growing markets in the world for engineering thermoplastics Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, plans to invest in a new Celstran® long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) compounding facility, and a 20,000 tpa new GUR® ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) facility in the Asia-Pacific region. The plants will increase the company's global GUR UHMW-PE capacity to 90,000 tpa. The GUR UHMW-PE facility is planned to be operational in the Q1 2008, while the first 2,000 metric ton Celstran LFT line is scheduled to be running by Q3 2007.
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