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Elkem Silicones, a leading integrated silicones provider, is building a new workshop to produce low viscosity silicone fluids for textile and leather, and personal care markets in Asia Pacific. The new textile and leather workshop, to be located at its Xinghuo site, the largest silicones manufacturing site in China, will start operations in January 2022.
“The new workshop is a key strategic investment for Elkem as it seeks to continuously expand our personal care and textile and leather markets across the globe and notably in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region. When in full operation, the new workshop will have a capacity of eleven thousand tons per year,” said Frederic Jacquin, senior vice president of Elkem Silicones, “The large availability of upstream intermediates in our Xinghuo plant and the very high growth rate of both markets in Asia Pacific region were the two key elements which decided the location of this new investment.”
Gilles Champion, global business manager for personal care of Elkem Silicones, said: “The global demand for low viscosity silicone linear fluids is fast increasing in the context of the new European regulations which will restrict the use of silicone cyclics in all personal care formulations. Elkem aims to be ahead of new regulations and offer sustainable solutions to customers, our production expansion will enable us to adapt to a major technology shift and meet this challenge.”
Leo Di, global business manager for textile and leather of Elkem Silicones added: “Asia is the largest textile market in the world, with this new facility, we will have a better proximity to Asia and will also enable Elkem Silicones to capture new opportunities in this largest and growing market.”
The new workshop will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including a clean room for automatic packaging, which will secure the purity and high quality of the fluids.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (SV)
Elkem Silicones, a leading integrated silicones provider, is building a new workshop to produce low viscosity silicone fluids for textile and leather, and personal care markets in Asia Pacific. The new textile and leather workshop, to be located at its Xinghuo site, the largest silicones manufacturing site in China, will start operations in January 2022.