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ovestro has started building additional production avis-Standard (Suzhou) Plastics Packaging
Clines for high-quality polycarbonate films at its DMachinery Co., Ltd. has expanded the company’s
Dormagen site,. The new coextrusion lines are scheduled manufacturing capabilities. Open for operation at the
for completion by the end of 2020 and will cover the end of April 2019 is an additional 35,000-sq-ft facility
increasing demand. According to current planning, more near the existing shop in Suzhou, China, and will house
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growing extrusion-coating business and long-term
strategy in the region.“The additional space will
allow us to build more extrusion coating lines at our
main plant while supporting other machine services,
including faster delivery,” says Jinsong Lin, gm-
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to our existing facility. The increased manufacturing
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equipment suppliers in the region and we don’t take
expansion, we are strengthening the Dormagen site as that for granted.”The medical tubing and packaging
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Schäfer, Covestro's Board Member for Production and Standard throughout Asia. Equipment sold to regional
Technology, at the laying of the cornerstone. "At the customers for medical tubing, extrusion-coating
same time, we are investing in promising technologies and coextrusionapplications is built in Suzhou, as is
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are used, among other things, in cars, in medical products gearcases. There is also an impressive R&D facility at
and in security cards. Covestro is equipping the production this location, equipped with technology for testing a
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we will be able to supply them faster and with higher microbore tubing, multilumen and catheter tubing,
quality," explained Dr. Thorsten Dreier, global head of
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at our competence center in Dormagen, they facilitate
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on many projects that are expected to be brought to
market maturity even faster with the new plants."The
new lines are designed for the production of multi-layer
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role in identity documents in order to embed security
features and ensure the best possible protection against
counterfeiting. They are also used in car interiors. The
competence center in Dormagen, which specializes in endotracheal and tracheotomy tubng, bubble tubing,
taper tubing and others. Most recently, Davis-Standard
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laboratories. The other two German competence centers customer trials. This is a single-station extrusion and
are located in Leverkusen and Bomlitz and specialize in ODPLQDWLRQ OLQH EXLOW VSHFLÀFDOO\ IRU WKH $VLDQ ÁH[LEOH
packaging market.
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