DuPont Performance Materials to launch its newest plant in Shenzhen, China

26-Apr-16

DuPont Performance Materials to launch its newest plant in Shenzhen, China by end of July, as reported by Plastics News. The plant will boast state-of-the-art compounding lines producing DuPont’s portfolio of rigid and flexible polymers and elastomers, including Zytel and Zytel HTN nylons, Crastin polybutylene terephthalate, Delrin acetal, Bynel adhesives and Fusabond compatibilizers. “In the new facility we will use new extruder machinery that will bring all kinds of benefits to us and improvements to our manufacturing,” said Philippe Hanck, the company’s Asia-Pacific business director, at a news conference in Shanghai. Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont currently has eight manufacturing sites in the Asia Pacific region. The Apollo plant will replace an existing plant, which will shut down. Hanck said the new plant will be DuPont’s largest compounding plant globally. The first phase of construction is quite large, he said, and “there will be a lot of space for further expansion.”