# BASF expands plastic additives capacity at McIntosh, Alabama plant

BASF announced a global investment of more than $200 million in its plastic additives business, including capacity expansion at its McIntosh, Alabama site. The expansion will boost production of Tinuvin light stabilizers.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2016-11-15
- Where: McIntosh, Alabama, United States
- Value: $200.0M
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 600,000 metric tons per year
- Products: plastic additives, Tinuvin light stabilizers
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [BASF](https://endata.com/companies/298.md)

## Sources

- [al.com](https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2016/11/basfs_200_million_expansion_pl.html), 2016-11-15: "BASF is expanding capacity at its manufacturing site in McIntosh, Alabama."
- [centralcharts.com](https://www.centralcharts.com/en/8881-basf/news/326065-basf-plans-a-stepwise-capacity-increase-of-its-north-american-mdi-production), 2016-11-16: "BASF has started engineering for a stepwise capacity increase of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) production facilities at the company’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana."
- [manufacturing.net](https://www.manufacturing.net/chemical-processing/news/13126343/basf-announces-expansion-plans-in-alabama-and-louisiana), 2016-11-21: "The engineering for the capacity of the MDI synthesis has already started."

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