Huntsman Corporation Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony For Shanghai Center

Chemical manufacturer Huntsman Corporation has opened a new Asia Pacific Technology Center in Shanghai’s Minhang Economic & Technological Development Zone.

AsianScientist (Feb. 16, 2012) – Chemical manufacturer Huntsman Corporation yesterday held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Asia Pacific Technology Center (ATC) in Shanghai’s Minhang Economic & Technological Development Zone.

The US$40 million facility, first announced in September 2011, will be operational by mid-2013.

“The center will focus on supporting Asia’s fast-growing industries, including developing cutting-edge energy-saving material solutions for strategic emerging industries as outlined in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan,” said Anthony P. Hankins, Huntsman’s Asia Pacific CEO at the ceremony.

The new ATC will form an integrated technology and innovation campus together with the existing technology center that was opened in September 2008.

The state-of-the-art facility will include machine halls, laboratories, and offices and accommodate up to 400 technical experts from different business units and will complement existing Technology Centers in The Woodlands, Texas and Brussels, Belgium as well as smaller regional centers.

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Source: Huntsman Corporation.
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