28 February 2018
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Trinseo,
today marked the opening of its new pilot plant
and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR)
capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany.
Business leaders and dignitaries, among them
Dr. Reiner Haseloff,
Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt,
celebrated the opening,
marking an important milestone
for both Trinseo and the region of Saxony-Anhalt.
The corporation’s decision to open the new facility
is triggered by the growth in global demand for S-SBR
and by the need for faster innovation cycles
in the performance tire market.
The new pilot plant
will design next generation material
and deliver sufficient quantities of new S-SBR formulations
as required for real-life tire-testing.
The pilot plant’s ability to evaluate
both process and product parameters
meet the tire manufacturers’ need
for reducing product validation time.
The production expansion adds
additional 50 KT of S-SBR capacity
to the Schkopau site and increases
the company’s global S-SBR production by 33 percent.
Most of Trinseo’s production goes into
the tire industry,
and the company has adopted
the tire industry’s speed, innovation, reliability
and forward-looking-approach.
Hayati Yarkadas,
Trinseo Senior Vice President and Business President
“With this plant, Trinseo has the ability
to react faster to customer demands
and enable them to become technological leaders,”
“The new pilot plant and capacity expansion is consistent
with our goal of increasing EBITDA by $100 million
in our Latex Binders, Synthetic Rubber,
and Performance Plastics segments
from 2016 to 2019 businesses.”
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