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Coatex, Arkema open new lab in China

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By: Kerry Pianoforte

Editor, Coatings World

Coatex and Arkema Emulsion Systems have opened a new Asia Pacific coatings application laboratory in Changshu China to provide technical support to their coatings customers in the region. The new facility will host a technical team with expertise in all Arkema Emulsion Systems and Coatex technologies and applications. The team will be dedicated to providing support for coatings formulation and evaluation to customers. Both businesses are part of the Arkema Group and their product lines for the coatings market are complementary. Arkema Emulsion Systems focuses on latex binders, while Coatex is entirely dedicated to water-based rheology additives. In the coming months on the same Changshu site, a water-based rheology modifier plant will be operational, followed in 2012 by latex production lines for Arkema Emulsion Systems products. Arkema Emulsion Systems and Coatex already work cooperatively to support the coatings market in North America where the two businesses together have a total of four production facilities and two R&D centers.

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