Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) has decided to construct a new production facility for polyethersulfone (PES) at its Chiba Works in Ichihara City, Chiba, Japan. The new facility will have a production capacity of 3,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and is scheduled to start commercial-scale production in 2018. When the facility becomes fully operational, Sumitomo Chemical’s total production capacity of PES, combined with the existing facilityin its Ehime Works in Niihama, Ehime, will grow twofold. PES is a thermoplastic resin with excellent properties in heat resistance, dimensional stability, flame resistance, and hot-water resistance.
Sumitomo Chemical to build polyethersulfone plant in Chiba
| By Mary Bailey