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BASF Confirms Final Phase of MDI Expansion at Geismar Verbund Site

Annual production capacity to be increased to 600,000 metric tons by the middle of the decade.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

BASF is moving forward with the final phase of the expansion project for the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) plant at its Verbund site in Geismar, LA. With this third step of its multiphase capacity expansion, BASF will increase production capacity to 600,000 metric tons per year by the middle of the decade and support the ongoing growth of its North American MDI customers. The company kicked off the expansion project in 2018 with a staggered approach consisting of three investment phas...

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