November 12, 2003

(Houston, Texas) Rohm and Haas Company is nearing completion of a $40 million expansion of their Methyl Methacrylate Monomer (MMA) unit at the Deer Park, Texas plant. The expansion will increase MMA production capacity by 115,000 metric tons per year, thereby increasing the total MMA output to approximately 475,000 metric tons per year. This Deer Park plant is the largest MMA producing plant in the world.

Alliance contractor, Zachry Construction has provided construction management services and began mechanical and electrical construction earlier this year. Jacobs Engineering Group International provided the engineering services.

Rohm and Haas' Deer Park plant is one of only four U.S. producers of MMA and reports that a majority share of the new MMA capacity will be supplied to ATOFINA for use in its manufacture of acrylic sheet and resins business through a subsidiary called Atoglas. Some of MMA's primary uses include automotive molding and extrusion products, acrylic plastics and resins, surface coatings and as a modifier in polymer products.

This article contains information from Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources Incorporated; Houston, Texas).

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