# Covestro to double MDI capacity at Brunsbüttel plant to 400,000 tons

Covestro is converting a plant in Brunsbüttel, Germany, to double its MDI production capacity to approximately 400,000 metric tons per year, expected to be completed in the course of 2018.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-04-25
- Where: Brunsbüttel, Northern Germany, Germany
- Starts operating: 2018
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 400,000 metric tons of MDI per year
- Products: MDI (rigid foam precursor)
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Covestro](https://endata.com/companies/1705.md)

## Sources

- [themachinist.in](https://www.themachinist.in/news/3163/covestro-registers-strong-quarter/page/2), 2017-04-25: "The company expects to double MDI production capacity there to approximately 400,000 metric tons in the course of 2018."

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