AkzoNobel has started operations at a new facility for packaging inks at its site in Songjiang, China.
The plant will produce inks used in beverage and can packaging.
“This new facility will establish AkzoNobel as a local supplier of inks in China and strengthen our position in the local packaging market,” said Chen Bin, director of metal coatings business in Asia.
“It also means that we now have local production of the complete external coatings system.”
The company’s technology for two-piece retort can systems is one of the leading external systems used by Chinese beverage and can packaging suppliers.
In 2014, the company doubled the capacity of the Songjiang site, which now employs close to 300 people and has the company’s largest research and development center in China.
