MERACRYL® NEWS

Due to the low market demand in Europe, Röhm extends the shutdown of several methacrylate monomer
production units in Worms into November.

Röhm and OQ Chemicals officially broke ground on a new world-scale methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant. The new facility will be constructed by Röhm at OQ Chemicals’ production site at Bay City, Texas.

To support global Methacylates “Verbund” and growth strategy of PMMA molding compounds production line in Shanghai, Röhm started a refinery project to further optimize its MERACRYL® MMA capacity.

• Since August 1^st 2019, all methacrylate monomers of Röhm are grouped under the brand name MERACRYL^®.
• Successful registration of Röhm’s brand for methacrylate monomers.

MMA plant in Fortier (Westwego, US) will start a scheduled maintenance shutdown in June lasting 14 days.