Bayer MaterialScience Expands Production Network in Asia
Additional EUR 80 million invested in China and India
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As demand for Makrolon® continues to rise, Bayer MaterialScience AG is steadily increasing polycarbonate production around the world. And at the end of 2006, the company will be producing 1,200,000 tons of Makrolon® a year. Additional international spending of around EUR 80 million is to be invested to build up a network in Asia in the next few years, allowing the company to offer excellent technical service locally and supply customers quickly and flexibly. The investments will be used, for example, to build additional compounding plants in China and India. Furthermore, a Color Competence Center (CCC) is to be built at the compounding plant in Shanghai, which has been in production since 2005. Combined with the Polymer Research and Development Center in Pudong, Shanghai, the region will become an important center for Asian and Chinese customers.
A compounding plant with an integrated Color Competence Center is to come into operation in southern China in the first half of 2008. The next step, planned for the end of 2008, is to use the same concept to invest in Bayer MaterialScience's new site in New Delhi (India). In this way, several locations in Asia will be added to the successful network of existing compounding plants with integrated Color Competence Centers in Filago (Italy), Newark (Ohio, United States) and Map Ta Phut (Thailand).
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