Specialty chemicals company Atotech announces that its recently completed production site in Yangzhou, China is now fully operational. The facility is reportedly Atotech’s second chemistry plant in China. The addition of the Yangzhou facility will provide additional capacity to serve the large and growing electronics and general metal finishing markets in China and create important redundancy with the company’s largest chemistry production site in Guangzhou, according to Atotech. The state-of-the-art facility houses 14 production vessels with a production capacity of 27,000 tons per year and is equipped with modern production features such as a manufacturing execution system and auto-stop-filling mechanisms.
The Yangzhou facility recently passed the strict governmental safety requirements for industrial production and received the necessary permits to start production, according to the company. At the Yangzhou site, Atotech has successfully adopted a new approach for wastewater treatment, which is set up as a combination of precipitation, evaporation and biological treatment. Discharge amounts in the new process reportedly are significantly below industry levels. Atotech says its global waste management procedures are designed to protect the environment, the employees and the local communities.
Atotech reportedly operates 17 production sites around the globe – eight in Asia, five in Europe and four in the Americas.
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