Coatings World - February 2008

I ndustry News
Rohm and Haas opens manufacturing facility

Rohm and Haas has opened operations at its new manufacturing plant in Sanshui, Guangdong Province, China. To date, the company has invested approximately $10 million in this site, which will manufacture products based on acrylic emulsion technology. The new facility has more than 20,000 metric tons of capacity and can be expanded to meet future needs in this rapidly growing market. Products made at this facility include environmentally friendly water-based binders and emulsions used to make consumer paint and coatings.

“South China comprises 40% of China’s total coatings industry,” said Helen Zhang, greater China general

manager, Rohm and Haas Paint and Coatings Materials. “This huge market potential, along with our global expertise as the world’s leading supplier of materials for the paint and coatings industry, brings us here.”

DSM ACQUIRES AMERICAN
RESINS PRODUCER SOLUOL

Netherlands-based Royal DSM N.V. has acquired the U.S.-based company Soluol, a developer, producer and marketer of high performance urethane resins which are used in a wide range of applications, with annual sales of $20 million. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details.

The acquisition of Soluol enhances

DSM’s specialty-resins presence in North America and adds new technology as well as a state-of-the-art production facility in Rhode Island. The acquired company will be grouped under the DSM NeoResins+ business unit, part of the DSM Resins business group.

“DSM Resins is a strategically very important business in DSM’s accelerated transformation into a leading life sciences and materials sciences company,” said Nico Gerardu, member of DSM’s managing board and responsible for the performance materials cluster. “The acquisition of Soluol and previously announced investments underline DSM’s belief in the strong growth

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