BASF shutters one PA plant, consolidates capacityBASF shutters one PA plant, consolidates capacity

 
Staying open are the supplier’s plants in Antwerp, Belgium and Ludwigshafen, Germany, while the third site in Rudolstadt, Germany will be shuttered in the next months, with the loss of 58 jobs. An engineering thermoplastics compounding line in Rudolstadt will remain in operation. The supplier is backwards integrated at the two surviving PA6 sites.

PA6 production in Ludwigshafen will be focused on high-margin grades of the material, leading to a reduction in total output there. When all of the changes are finished, BASF’s global PA6 and PA6.6 annual capacity will be reduced by about 40,000 tonnes to 680,000 tonnes/yr. —[email protected]