Japan’s Polyplastics Group has announced plans to build a new cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) plant in Leuna, Germany as an effort to meet growing global demand for the material. The proposed plant will be operated by the company’s German subsidiary TOPAS Advanced Polymers GmbH. It will be able to produce up to 20,000 tons/year when it enters service in 2023. The plant will more than double Polyplastics’ Topas COC Polymers production capacity.
Polyplastics’s existing COC production facility is located in Oberhausen, Germany, and was opened in 2000. Since then, the company has developed a broad range of applications for Topas COC. The material has outstanding purity and glass-like properties, making it suitable to be applied to many medical devices. Polyplastics claims that its Topas COC is a sustainable mono-material solution with better recyclability, receiving a recyclable polyolefin certificate from the EU.
