Ticona

Ticona (now a Celanese division)
legal form	Part of a public company
founding	1961
Seat	Irving , Texas
management	Mark C. Rohr, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Number of employees	1450 worldwide (2009)
sales	$ 808 million (2009)
Branch	Engineering plastics
Website	www.celanese.de

Ticona was an international manufacturer of engineering plastics . In 2013, the previously independent company was incorporated as a division under the umbrella brand of the parent company Celanese . The production facilities are located in the Höchst Industrial Park in Frankfurt am Main , the Commercial Center in Sulzbach (Taunus) in the Main-Taunus district . Ticona was based in Kelsterbach in the Groß-Gerau district until 2011 . Because of the construction of the new northwest runway at Frankfurt Airport , the old location had to be abandoned.

history

Monomer operation at Ticona

The Kelsterbach plant was in 1961 as a joint venture of Celanese Corporation of America, and in Frankfurt based Hoechst founded AG. After the merger of Hoechst AG with the French pharmaceutical group Rhône-Poulenc in 1999 to form Aventis (today: Sanofi ), Ticona GmbH was incorporated into Celanese as an independent company.

Ticona’s main business since it was founded in 1961 has been the production of Hostaform , an acetal polymer . This is a high-performance plastic for technical applications.

With effect from January 1, 2006, the Topas division , which produces and sells cyclo-olefin copolymers (COC), was sold to the Japanese companies Daicel and Polyplastics and spun off into the new company Topas Advanced Polymers . Polyplastics itself is a joint venture between Daicel and Ticona.

Ticona also held stakes in Fortron Industries , which operates one of the largest polyphenylene sulfide production facilities in Wilmington (USA), and PTM Engineering Plastics in Nantong ( China ).

With the takeover of FACT Future Composites Technology GmbH by Celanese in 2010, Ticona bundled its long fiber reinforced thermoplastics business in the newly founded Celstran GmbH . Also in 2010, Ticona took over the Zenite LCP and Thermx PCT product lines from DuPont Performance Polymers .