# Ascend Performance Materials to build HMD plant in Lianyungang, China

Ascend Performance Materials signed an investment agreement to construct a hexamethylene diamine (HMD) and specialty chemicals plant in Lianyungang, China. Construction starts later in 2022, with startup targeted for the second half of 2023.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2022-01-12
- Where: Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China
- Starts operating: Q3 2023
- Status: announced
- Products: hexamethylene diamine, specialty chemicals
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

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

## Sources

- [ascendmaterials.com](https://www.ascendmaterials.com/news/ascend-to-build-hmd-plant-in-chinas-jiangsu-province), 2022-01-12: "Our new HMD plant positions us to continue supporting these transformations well into the future."

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