# Ascend Performance Materials expanding adiponitrile capacity in Decatur

Ascend Performance Materials is expanding adiponitrile capacity by 220,000 metric tons per year at its Decatur, Alabama plant, with projects to be completed by 2022. A 50,000-ton expansion was completed in 2017, another 40,000 tons starts by end of 2018, and a final 180,000-ton project will follow.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2018-06-10
- Where: Decatur, Alabama, United States
- Starts operating: 2022
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 220,000 metric tons per year
- Products: adiponitrile
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Ascend Performance Materials](https://endata.com/companies/26329.md)

## Sources

- [cen.acs.org](https://cen.acs.org/materials/polymers/Ascend-expanding-adiponitrile/96/i24), 2018-06-10: "Ascend Performance Materials is expanding its adiponitrile capacity by 220,000 metric tons per year in a series of projects at its plant in Decatur, Ala., that will be completed by 2022."

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