Special material company Celanese announced yesterday that it has added a new GUR® ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) production line at its production base in Nanjing, China to support its engineering materials business, especially the rapid growth of the electric vehicle market. .
Celanese Chief Operating Officer, Scott Sutton, said: “With the increasing demand for specialty materials in key industries such as healthcare, automotive, consumer products, and energy storage worldwide, Celanese is working with customers to provide products that consumers use every day around the world. Innovative materials. The expansion of GUR® capacity at Nanjing Integrated Chemicals, together with our recent acquisitions, will enable us to provide support to a growing and diversified customer base to meet the growing demand for specialty materials such as UHMWPE. Increased demand. '
It is expected that by the middle of 2019, the GUR® UHMW-PE production capacity of the new production line at Celanese's Nanjing production base will increase by approximately 15,000 tons per year.
In addition to the demand for GUR® materials in the sheet, profile, and filter markets, Celanese saw growth prospects for the GUR® market in the field of lithium battery separators for electric vehicles. The annual demand growth will reach 20% to 30. %, and most of the processing manufacturers are located in China.