Evonik to Reorganize High-Performance Polymer Business, Expand Polyamide Capacity
Evonik reports that it is concentrating its activities on high-performance materials for attractive growth markets such as the automotive, oil and gas, 3D printing, and optics industries.
Evonik recently announced that it is reorganizing its business for high-performance polymers within the polyamide group. The company has begun construction of a new polyamide 12 (PA 12) facility complex and is expanding its production of transparent polyamides at the Marl Chemical Park. Evonik reports that it is concentrating its activities on high-performance materials for attractive growth markets such as the automotive, oil and gas, 3D printing, and optics industries.
As part of the reorganization process, Evonik will withdraw entirely from the polyphthalamide (PPA) business at its Witten site by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Evonik will transfer employees from the PPA plant to its Marl site, where they will work at the new PA 12 production plant.