Chemicals group BASF has announced two developments that will help it expand the polyamide 6.6 business that it acquired from Solvay at the start of 2020.

It is to build a new plant at Chalampé in eastern France for producing hexamethylene diamine (HMD), a precursor in the production of high-quality polyamide 6.6 plastics and coating raw materials. The new factory will come into operation in 2024 and will have the capacity to produce 260,000 tonnes of HMD per year.

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