The Performance Products division of Huntsman Corporation announced plans to expand capacity of specialty amines at its manufacturing facilities in Petfurdo, Hungary and in Conroe, Texas. The new multipurpose unit at Petfurdo extends the Huntsman manufacturing portfolio, further leverages the company’s integrated amines capability and increases existing specialty amine production capacity by a minimum of 20 percent at that plant. The expansion in Conroe will add equivalent capacity and improve the flexibility of its specialty amine unit. The new capacities are planned to go on stream by 2016. The financial investment and capacity were not disclosed.

In the last several years Huntsman one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialty amines – has seen interest in many specialty amine product lines accelerate across the globe. Specialty amines are used by many industries including for the manufacture of polyurethane foams, coatings, lubricants and detergents.