DSM R&D IN CHINA

[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Pudong, June 2]
Patrick Niels, BU director of DSM Powder Coating Resins, performed the official opening ceremony for the new R&D synthesis laboratory at the DSM Powder Coating Resins site in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China (PRC).

At the ceremony Patrick Niels said: "Today's opening is a important step forward for us in China. In addition to our existing production base in Kunshan and local marketing and sales force, this lab will become the new incubator of our innovation competences and will help us respond faster to the developments in Asia, and especially China. The economy is growing so fast here, and so it becomes increasingly important to test and develop products locally. Responding more quickly to customer requests will give us a competitive edge over the competition."

In order to give a faster response to customer needs in China the laboratory will provide them with technical service support. It is the intention that the lab will move to the DSM China Campus in the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai (PRC) when construction on this new site has been completed. The DSM China Campus is foreseen to open at the end of 2008.
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