Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials organization, today reports its arrangement to expand its GUR? excessively high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) production capacity in Europe. In addition to the actually revealed Bishop, Texas, GUR? expansion of around 15KT every year coming online beginning in 2022, Celanese hopes to invest in additional capacity for GUR? in Europe. The expansion in Europe is depended upon to be online beginning in 2024 with a yearly nameplate capacity of around 34KT. Site selection for this new European office is in progress, and Celanese is considering both existing and greenfield locations for a GUR? production unit.
Celanese Hopes To Fulfil Needs Of Customers
The addition of another UHMW-PE production office in Europe will maintain the enormous advancement in the organization’s high-regard GUR? engineered materials portfolio. With this investment, Celanese will really need to help the twofold digit advancement for LIBS (Lithium Ion Battery Separators) in the electric vehicle (EV) market. The new office will moreover have the option to make clinical evaluation GUR?.
“EV demand is needed to have a collected yearly improvement speed of more conspicuous than 25% through 2025, achieving strong demand for Celanese GUR? for LIBS,” said Tom Kelly, Celanese Senior Vice President, Engineered Materials. “We see separator manufacturers and battery producers investing in the European region and looking for close by stock. European demand in that sector for UHMWE-PE is expected to outmaneuver demand in Asia, and Celanese is throughout positioned as the world’s boss GUR? manufacturer to help this demand need.”
Customers look for Celanese for a strong store of GUR? that satisfies exceptionally extreme quality rules, and the actually proclaimed capacity expansions at the organization’s Bishop, Texas consolidated chemical complex will enable Celanese to continue supporting a creating and grouped customer base and respond to the expanding need for specialty materials like UHMW-PE. Additionally, the expansion of GUR? capacity completed in June of 2019 at the organization’s Nanjing, China, fused chemical complex, continues positioning Celanese as the singular truly global producer of UHMWE-PE, giving Celanese the fascinating capacity to work personally with its customers taking everything together regions of the world.