Paint and coatings manufacturer AkzoNobel is investing more than €6.5 million in its Songjiang site near Shanghai, China, to expand an existing research center by adding a dedicated facility for the company's Performance coatings businesses.
China’s architectural coatings market nearly doubled to 4.64 million tons between 2008 and 2013 and will sustain its growth as the rising Asian giant maintains its rapid pace of urbanization.
Coating Innovative Technology Convention 2014, an industry event hosted by PCI’s Shanghai office, took place at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel Parkview on April 22-23.
AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world.
Bayer MaterialScience announced its expansion plan for the production of hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) at the groundbreaking of its new 50,000-tons-per-year HDI production unit located at the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai (BISS).