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 significant capacity expansion at the Kalama site has been successfully completed. Benzyl alcohol is used as a solvent and intermediate, and is highly valued due to its low volatility and low toxicity.
AkzoNobel is building a plant in Chungli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, that will allow customers in Taiwan more access to the company's advanced powder coatings solutions.
The Valspar Corp. is expanding production capacity at its Singapore facility to meet increased demand for its food and beverage packaging products in the Asia-Pacific region.
BASF is extending its existing production facilities for Laromer® UV/EB acrylates, which are part of BASF’s C3-Verbund system, at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany.
The Performance Products division of Huntsman Corp. announced plans to expand capacity of specialty amines at its manufacturing facilities in Petfurdo, Hungary, and in Conroe, TX.
