Firm to Produce Resin, Construct Laboratory

Mobay Corp. has begun production of a high-purity polycarbonate resin for use in the manufacture of compact audio discs and digital storage memories and will build a compact-disc research laboratory in Pittsburgh, the company recently said.

Mobay, a subsidiary of Bayer USA Inc. and Bayer AG of Leverkusen, West Germany, announced that the resin Makrolon CD-2000 is being manufactured at its plant in Baytown, Tex. The plant is expected to produce up to 50 million pounds of the material annually.