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MEXICO: Construction plans for proposed 45,000 metric ton per year styrene-butadiene-styrene...

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Germany-based BASF AG recently decided to move ahead with its long-stalled Mexican copolymer plant construction plans. In so doing, the company is now planning to build a complex with an installed production capacity of 45,000 metric tons per year. Production output will consist of styrene-batadiene-styrene (SBS) copolymer. The new factory, of undisclosed cost, is to be sited at Altamira.

Project completion is scheduled for some time around the beginning of the year 2003.

BASF employs a total staff of about 197,000. The compa

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