Ticona GmbH

In December 2005 Celanese contracted to sell its loss-making Topas, cyclo-olefin copolymers (COC) operation to a Daicel (55%)/Polyplastics (45%) joint venture. This COC business has approximately 100 employees at production and research facilities in Oberhausen and Frankfurt as well as in the UK. Following the sale, which involves the transfer of all production faciUties and employees to the new joint venture, the headquarters of the business will remain in Germany. Ironically, Mitsui Chemicals announced plans to increase COC production by 600 tonnes per year, citing forecast rising demand of 20% per year for its own Apel COC product. Earlier, Ticona had announced its intention to withdraw from its Pemeas joint venture which had lost US 12 million in 2003. 

In parmership with GL Carbon, Ticona have developed a highly graphite filled Vectra grade for the injection moulding of bipolar fuel cell plates. These plates can be moulded on a 10 second cycle time and 

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Y. Suwa and T. Nakamura, Full-color toner for oil-less fixing, US Patent 6846602, assigned to Tomoegawa Paper Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) and Ticona GmbH (DE), January 25,2005. 

F. Helmer-Metzmann and A. Jacobs, Method for absorbing contaminants, US Patent 6818 590, assigned to Ticona GmbH (DE), November 16, 2004. 

Ethylene-norbornene copolymers, which have thermoplastic properties when heated above their glass transition temperatures of ca. 200-250°C, have been commercialized by Ticona GmbH under the trade name TOPAS (Tliermoplas-tic Olefin Polymer of Amorphous Structure). Their properties - exceptional transparency, low double refraction, high stiffnes and hardness, low permeability for moisture and excellent biocompatibility - make these ethylene-norbornene copolymers particularly valuable as engineering polymers, for optical applications and as materials for food and medical packaging. 

Tic N.N. Polyphenylensulfid - Fortron Faltblatt B 260 FB D. Ticona GmbH, Kelsterbach, 2004. 

Scheckenbach H, Schleicher A, Kulpe J, Neumann W, Jansen B. Abrasion-resistant flu-oropolymer mixtures. US patent 5 864095, assigned to Ticona GmbH, DE 1999. 

Kurz, K Ziegler, U Zierer, D, EP1339793, Ticona GmbH, 25 Oct. 2000. 

Ticona, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, and Korea Engineering Plastics Nantong Municipality Jiangsu Province, PROC Ticona GmbH (a Celanese AG business) Kelsterbach, Frankfurt, Germany (owned by Blackstone Capital Partners)... 

Topas COC Product Bulletin, Ticona GmbH (Sept. 1997). 

Rohrmann, J. Brekner, M.-J. Kueber, F. Osan, F. Weller, T. Process for preparing cyclo-olefin polymers. European Patent 0610843B1 (Ticona GmbH), May 19, 1999. 

The first success in this approach was norbomene-efliylene copolymerization in the presence of zirconocene catalysts [5]. Later, this method was refined and commercialized by researchers of Hoechst AG [6]. At present, norbomene-ethylene copolymers are manufactured by Ticona GmbH, (trademark Topas)... 

Ticona GmbH Sterilisierbarkeit, company brochure, Frankfurt, 2000... 

Ttie e products are also produced and marketed by TIcona GmbH, PostFach 1561,65444 Kelsterbach, Germany. Underwriters Laboratories Inc(Si... 

Cyclic olefin copolymers (COC) are an amorphous glass clear copolymer of ethylene and norbomene, made via proprietary metallocene catalysts. The material was developed by Ticona GmbH and is now being marketed under the Topas trade name. 

The US company Plastic Molding Corporation (PMC), is using the polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) from Ticona GmbH for the production of fuel pumps. The company claims that PPS achieves air chamber tolerances in production of below 0.05 mm, a figure that appeared impossible with other materials in the production of various fuel pumps. 

Ticona GmbH is PBT market leader in Japan, second in the US, but has only 10,000 tpa of polyester capacity in Europe, of which 5,000 tpa is PBT production. Globally, total PBT production capacity for Ticona stands at 90,000 tpa in 2002. 

The world polyacetal market is highly concentrated in the hands of a few global businesses. Ticona GmbH claims around a 45% share of the global market, including its Polyplastics joint venture with Daicel Chemical Industries. DuPont is the world s number two supplier, followed by the BASF/Degussa joint venture Ultraform, and then by smaller Asian players such as Asahi Chemical and Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics. 

Ticona GmbH, is the engineering plastics subsidiary of Celanese AG, and the leading worldwide POM supplier with total capacity of 165,000 in 2002. The main production sites for acetals are located in Bishop, Texas, and Kelsterbach, Germany. Ticona increased production capacity for polyacetal resins at the Kelsterbach plant, from 77,000 tpa to 100,000 tpa at the end of 2002. 

Ticona GmbH, part of the Celanese group, is the leading world supplier of LCP with global capacity of 8,500 tpa. DuPont is the other major world supplier of LCPs with its Zenite product... 

Ticona GmbH, A Business of Celanese AG, Professor-Staudinger-StraUe, 65451 Kelsterbach, Germany (Tel 49 -180 - 584 2662 FAX 49 180 - 2021202 E-mail infoservice ticona.de)... 

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