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Production restricted following explosion in Bayer TDI plant

03/10/2006
Following a recent explosion in a process vessel at the Baytown Industrial Park in Texas, German polymer producer Bayer MaterialScience is experiencing production restrictions. An international team of experts from Bayer is working hard to investigate the cause of the incident in close collaboration with the responsible authorities.

One of the company’s two TDI production lines in Baytown was shut down and will remain so temporarily. The damage in economic terms cannot yet be calculated.

TDI (toluene diisocyanate) is an important basic product in the manufacture of polyurethanes.

The total annual capacity of Bayer MaterialScience’s TDI production facilities in Baytown amounts to 200,000 metric tons, a high proportion of which comes from the production line that has been shut down. For this reason it declared a state of force majeure on September 29. The company will inform customers about this without delay.


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