COLUMBUS, OH – Hexion Specialty Chemicals has announced that its Brazilian subsidiary, Hexion Quimica Industria e Comercio Ltda., has begun construction of a formaldehyde and resins manufacturing complex to serve the rapidly growing engineered wood products market in southern Brazil.

Hexion’s Board of Directors recently approved construction of the formaldehyde and resins manufacturing complex in Montenegro, Brazil, with a rated annual capacity of 450,000 metric tons. Both phenol formaldehyde resins and urea formaldehyde resins will be produced. The facility is expected to begin operations in the second quarter of 2009.