16 March 2007 – France’s Rhodia group has celebrated ground breaking on its new 48,000 tpa nylon 66 plant at Onsan in South Korea. The new facility will produce nylon salts and Stabamid PA66 polymers and will cost nearly ˆ40 million.
The new plant is scheduled to start up at the end of this year, and the group is now mulling the possibility of building an adiponitrile plant in Asia. It has already announced that it will build a 60,000tpa hexamethylene diamine plant in China as part of its upstream integration in the nylon chain.
“These decisions are fully in line with the strategy of Rhodia Polyamide to focus on our intermediates and engineering plastics businesses in which we hold leadership positions,” said Laurent Schmitt, president of Rhodia’ s Polyamide arm
