Ticona plans to create a Customer Application Development Center in Shanghai. The new center will be part of global support network which includes similar centers in Kelsterbach, Germany, Auburn Hills, Michigan USA. The Shanghai region was chosen for the facility because many Ticona customers have their headquarters and engineering facilities nearby. In mid-May, Ticona held a ground-breaking ceremony in Nanjing, China for two new production plants - one for GUR ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) and the other for Celstran long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (LFRT). Both facilities are being built in the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park adjacent to the Celanese integrated acetyls complex. The LFRT facility will come on stream in the first half of 2008, while the UHME-PE plant will be completed in the second half of 2008. The new production facilities will bring Ticona's annual global capacity for GUR to more than 90 000 tons and raise its annual global Celstran LFRT capacity to more than 35 000 tons.
28-May-07 
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