# Covestro invests EUR 200 million to expand MDI capacity at Tarragona

Covestro will invest around EUR 200 million to debottleneck its MDI plant in Tarragona, Spain, increasing capacity by 50,000 metric tons to 220,000 metric tons per year, and build its own chlorine supply.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-12-11
- Where: Tarragona, Spain
- Value: $235.0M (200.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2022
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 220,000 metric tons per year of MDI
- Products: MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate), chlorine
- 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

- [covestro.com](https://www.covestro.com/press/covestro-continues-production-at-tarragona-site/), 2017-12-10: "We are fully committed to the MDI market and our site in Tarragona."
- [cen.acs.org](https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i49/Covestro-adds-MDI-chlorine-Spain.html), 2017-12-18: "Covestro will spend about $235 million to increase its production capacity for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) in Tarragona, Spain, by about 30% to 220,000 metric tons per year."
- [lavanguardia.com](https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20171219/433579341609/covestro-blinda-el-futuro-de-su-planta-de-tarragona.html), 2017-12-19: "Queda cancelada la prórroga, esta inversión asegura el futuro de nuestras instalaciones de Tarragona y nos coloca en una posición muy fuerte para el mercado nacional y europeo."
- [european-coatings.com](https://www.european-coatings.com/news/raw-materials/boosting-polyurethane-capacities-worldwide/), 2017-12-21: "Along with a current expansion of production in Barcelona, the company is thus boosting its capacities in Europe significantly."
- [technews.tw](https://technews.tw/2018/01/18/covestro-in-tarragona/), 2018-01-18: "材料製造商科思創日前宣布計劃投資約 2 億歐元於西班牙塔拉戈納（Tarragona）的生產基地。"

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