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.
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