The company will increase production capacity to approximately 600,000 metric tons per year by the middle of the decade to support the ongoing growth of its North American MDI customers.

OneBond aims to offer performance-based, sustainable solutions to build and restore equipment and tools, safely and efficiently, in a number of repair and maintenance operations. The brand plans to continue expanding its offerings.

The plant comes equipped with the first automated packaging production line in China. This, along with high-speed printing presses, laminators, and bag-making machines, can deliver double-digit reductions in manufacturing cycle times.

By commissioning the new plant, Sika hopes to expand its position in this rapidly growing metropolitan area. The area is set to become even more important as China is creating the Chengdu-Chongqing business district with almost 100 million inhabitants.

Atlas Copco is constructing an Electronics Competence Center at its Scheugenpflug GmbH headquarters in Neustadt an der Donau, Germany, to handle the technologies involved in electronics manufacturing. By 2024, the company says it will have three-times more space at the location.

In the first step, a new silicone coater will be installed at the Pulaski, New York, site in mid-2023. The Felix Schoeller Group says this will enable the company to supply the North American market with domestically produced siliconized papers and films.

This expansion of Henkel’s existing site brings a new 10,000-square-foot production area for UV-curable acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA), helping the company provide more sustainable and innovative PSA solutions to the tape, label, medical, and graphics films markets.

The production at the new site will be ramped up in stages, starting with the company’s inorganic binder technology INOTEC, and followed by ASK Chemicals’ water-based coatings technology and risers.

Röhm and OQ Chemicals announced plans for a new methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant to be constructed in Bay City, Texas.

Motion Industries Inc., distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts, announced that its industrial automation solution provider Motion Ai opened a new facility for its growing business.