is a nonprofit organization that works
to increase the chances of curing childhood cancer. A resource in the treatment
of children and adolescents with cancer,
it provides all necessary assistance for
the continuity of care. Through the ICI,
patients can get support for their psychological, nutritional, dental, medication,
testing and other needs. Their families
also receive assistance with clothing,
shoes and food. The ICI also conducts
scientific research dedicated to advancing
new treatments for childhood cancers.
Sika Expands Production
Site in Austria
Sika is investing approximately CHF 2.2
million in the expansion of its production
site in Bludenz, Austria. A new warehouse
and a new manufacturing line for waterbars is being added to the existing site.
Sika is not just expanding its produc-
tion capacities and warehouse space with
the two-story warehouse, which has 1,800
square meters of useable floor space; it is
also creating eight new jobs. The site cur-
rently has a workforce of 75 employees. Sika
has been producing construction chemicals
in Vorarlberg since 1939, and has been con-
tinuously expanding the site since then.
Sika is positioning itself more broadly in Bludenz with the new manufacturing line, which will produce around
600,000 running meters of waterbars
each year. Waterbars are used to waterproof buildings and other structures.
Around 40,000 tons of construction
chemicals such as mortars, synthetic
resin floor coatings, concrete admixtures, waterbars and release agents are
manufactured each year in Bludenz for
the Austrian market plus other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Nippon Paint to Increase
Production of Building Paint
in China
Nippon Paint Holdings will invest ap-
proximately 30 billion yen ($284 mil-
lion) in three years to significantly
increase its production of build-
ing paint in China, in response
to solid demand growth for its
inorganic paint.
The Japanese paint maker currently
operates five large-scale plants and 24
smaller production facilities in China.
It plans to add one large building-paint
plant each in the inland provinces of
Hubei and Henan, spending a total of 20
billion yen.
By also setting up smaller plants for
paint materials for homes, buildings and
other structures in Hubei, Jiangsu and
other provinces, the company aims to lift
the total number of its Chinese production bases to 38 within three years. This
is expected to raise its total Chinese production capacity for paint, including automotive coatings, to 3. 6 million tons a
year in 2020, up 70 percent from 2015.
Nippon Paint will also expand its sales
network in China, making its products
available at more stores, centering on the
city of Chongqing and elsewhere. The
