Evonik to apply new MMA production technique at expanded Alabama plantEvonik to apply new MMA production technique at expanded Alabama plant

over the last five years for the manufacture of methyl methacrylate (MMA) will be applied at commercial scale production rates in a newly announced 120,000 tonnes/yr site in Alabama. Evonik is starting basic planning of the facility which will come onstream in mid-2015, with the site to apply its Aveneer process and employ 100. The monetary investment was described as being in the "three-digit million Euro range." MMA's primary use is as a building block for the resin polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).