Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated its new  production facilities in Shanghai, China. The project at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park will involve total expenditure of approximately $1.8 billion up to 2009.

The company’s existing facilities will now be supplemented by a world-scale polycarbonate production unit with a starting capacity of 100,000 tons per year; the first polyurethane facility at the Bayer site; a crude MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanate) splitter with a capacity of 80,000 tons per year; and a production unit for HDI (hexamethylene diisocyanate) with an initial capacity of 30,000 tons per year.