Ticona, the technical polymer business of Celanese, is a leading global
supplier of engineering polymers. Ticona's products serve designers and engineers in a number of key
markets such as automotive and aircraft industries, communications technology, consumer & recreational
products, industrial application, medical and many more.
Creative innovations
as well as close relationships with our customers drive new developments. Global presence is
one of our key success factors in supporting our customers right from the start. Together
with our affiliates abroad and alliance partners, we operate production, compounding and research facilities
in Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region.
Our products are under
constant
development in order to meet our customers' specifications as well as market and legal requirements
where needed.
Many of our broad portfolio thermoplastics are leading products, such as polyoxymethylene copolymers (POM), ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) and liquid crystal
polymers (LCP).
With
more than 1000 employees throughout the world, for
the year ended December 31, 2006, sales in this segment were $915 million.