PPG Industries has started operations at a new facility in the Zhangjiagang Yangtze International Chemical Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, the first resin production plant in mainland China.
With initial production capacity of 27,000t, the plant will supply advanced resin products to PPG coatings plants and other customers in the region.
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“Start-up of the Zhangjiagang plant marks another important milestone in PPG’s history of doing business in China,” said PPG chairman and CEO Charles Bunch.
“This resins plant will help PPG to better serve China and other countries in the Asia/Pacific region, reinforcing our leading position in the regional paint and coatings industry as well as our focus on growth in these rapidly developing economies.”
The new plant will produce finished electrodeposition resins for use in the manufacture of automotive and industrial electrocoat products. It spans 60,000 square meters and incorporates ‘green’ building materials by PPG such as low-VOC (volatile organic compound) coatings and low-emissivity glass.
PPG also operates resin-production facilities in the US, Europe, Brazil, Australia, South Korea and Mexico.
