IN WITH THE NEW.

The article focuses on the new technology, dubbed Alpha, for making methyl methacrylate (MMA) at Lucite International Group Ltd.'s facility in Singapore. It notes that the newly reinvented process, which is the result of the effort of the company's chemists and chemical engineers of whom are mostly British, uses readily available feedstocks and does not yield by-products. Lucite senior chemist David Johnson relates the advantage of Alpha technology over the acetone cyanohydrin (ACH) process.