Articles Tagged with ''production expansion''

A new line in Germany will expand heptanoic acid production and strengthen OQ’s carboxylic acid supply chain in mid-2025.

The company announced plans to more than double its production of anionic surfactants at its Middletown site.

The company announced plans to more than double its production of anionic surfactants at its Middletown site.

The company announced a significant investment to increase its production capacity for tailor-made polycarbonates at its Herbon, Ohio, site.

A newly updated and automated production line is up and running at AkzoNobel’s Suzhou site in China, part of a €14 million investment designed to accelerate growth and double the plant’s capacity for marine and protective coatings by 2025.

The company said the launch of its new plant is an important milestone to better serve specialty additives customers in North America, and it complements its existing full-scale plants.

The facility, set to be completed at the end of 2024, will more than double the current capacity from the company's Toronto and Mississauga plants.

Through a series of projects over the next two years, the expansion is anticipated to increase global production capacity 20-fold and position the company to better meet the sustainability, performance, and cost demands of colorant producers and paint retail stores.

The new facility serves the growing APAC region demand, and complements Penn Color’s Technology Center in Singapore, which opened in January.