# Bayer MaterialScience builds new HDI plant in Shanghai

Bayer MaterialScience broke ground on a new 50,000 metric ton per year HDI plant at its Shanghai, China site, scheduled for completion in 2016. The plant will use gas-phase technology.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2020-04-09
- Where: Shanghai, China, China
- Starts operating: 2016
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 50,000 metric tons per year
- Products: hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI), coating raw materials
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Bayer MaterialScience](https://endata.com/companies/46458.md)

## Sources

- [manufacturing-journal.net](https://www.manufacturing-journal.net/press-release/2060-bayer-expands-production-for-coating-raw-materials-in-china), 2020-04-09: "The construction of our new HDI plant documents our confidence in the Asia/Pacific market and China, in particular."

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