On December 15, the groundbreaking ceremony for Clariant Huizhou Production Site Expansion was held in Daya Bay, Huizhou, a city in the southeast of Guangdong province.
Clariant management team together with local government officials, key customers and partners at the joint groundbreaking ceremony. [Photo provided to GDToday]
With an investment of 80 million Swiss Francs (CHF), Clariant is set to expand its Care Chemicals facility in Daya Bay to boost its support for pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, and industrial application customers. It will see capacity increases for existing products as well as the introduction of new products by the end of 2024.
“It was very critical that from the beginning of the projects we received the continuous great support from the management and the bureaus of the Daya bay chemical park, as well as the government officials in Huizhou city!” said Andy Walti, Head of Clariant China & APAC.
Located in Huizhou Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, the site will also become a new global hub for Clariant's healthcare business support, speeding up the supply of high-quality ingredients for life-changing medicines.
The Zone, with a total land area of 293 square kilometers, is known as one of China’s top chemical parks. It is home to competitive industries like petrochemicals, electronic information, automobile and equipment manufacturing.
"Daya Bay was home to Clariant's first ethoxylation plant in Asia and, with these investments, we will advance this location to an integrated Multi-Purpose Plant / Ethylene Oxide Derivatives site, with good proximity to key manufacturing locations. This underlines our commitment to bringing greater chemistry to the region to support our customers' success," said Christian Vang, Head of Clariant Care Chemicals.
By successfully obtaining the drug GMP certificate, the Clariant Daya Bay manufacturing site has become the first API manufacturer in China with certified polyethylene glycol Polyglykol 3350.
The investment by the Care Chemicals Business to enhance the Chinese ethoxylation plant follows several recent investments by Clariant at Daya Bay. In October 2022, Clariant announced it is adding a second production line at its future Additives plant for halogen-free flame retardants, currently being constructed at the site. The new plant's first line is due to open mid-2023 with the second line coming on stream during 2024.
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