SABIC Innovative Plastics - SABIC Innovative Plastics Expands Local Manufacturing and Application Development Capabilities

SABIC Innovative Plastics? Pudong FacilityStore this angel in big sizeBERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – April 23, 2008 – China’s advancing abridgement is active appeal above assorted industries for fast acceptance to high-performance plastics and value-added development services. At Chinaplas 2008, Stand #W2G31, SABIC Innovative Plastics appear a multi-pronged action to accommodated these chump needs through amplification of bounded ability and artefact fulfillment. The aggregation is abacus cogent assembly adequacy to its bulb in Pudong, Shanghai: a new ability apartment four banishment curve that will activate operations this month. SABIC Innovative Plastics will aswell aggrandize its China Technology Center, amid here, with the conception of a new Center of Excellence focused on anthology computers. The company’s connected investment in appliance development and assembly assets will accommodate barter in Greater China and Asia with faster accretion and outstanding abstruse support.

“Asia is a above cardinal focus for SABIC Innovative Plastics, area we are demonstrating our charge by analysis new assembly accessories and casework abutting to barter to plan with them as abiding partners.” said Alan Leung, Pacific admiral for SABIC Innovative Plastics. “Our goals are to advice automotive, electrical/electronics, and added arch OEMs and molders abate time to bazaar for their articles and accomplish a above aggressive advantage by leveraging end-to-end development expertise. Our mission is to abide to advantage this ability as engineering plastics antecedents to drive our customer-focused initiatives forward, apparent by the contempo aperture of the new assembly curve in Chung-ju, Korea, to accomplish LNP* Verton* composites readily accessible to Asian customers.”

New Production Facility Leverages Lean Manufacturing Design

The new banishment ability will aftermath a ambit of resins for the automotive and electrical/electronics sectors. It is the aboriginal SABIC Innovative Plastics website created application Lean accomplishment design, an access is that absolutely altered from acceptable models. Lean accomplishment allows for the assembly of baby lot orders, the adaptability to change assembly actual quickly, and enables a connected action for accomplishment and accumulation to the customer, abbreviation aeon time for bearing materials.

Center of Excellence Targets Notebook Computer Innovation

More than 80 percent of the world’s anthology PCs are produced in China. To abutment appliance innovation, SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Center of Excellence will action absolute design, actual specification, testing, and processing expertise. Because of its area in the China Technology Center, the new Center of Excellence will be able to draw aloft assets such as polymer conception and blush and aftereffect development. Customers can plan with SABIC Innovative Plastics’ experts to actualize and validate new applications, abbreviation addition development aeon times, and advocacy their aggressive differentiation.

Future Focus

SABIC Innovative Plastics will authorize a new, world-class Research, Development and Customer Technology Center (CTC) in Shanghai by the end of 2010. The new ability will aswell serve as the Asia Pacific address for SABIC Innovative Plastics. It will be the focal point for the company’s accelerated advance and amplification in Asia, and will abode all-around R&D activities acknowledging the needs of all-around customers. This new ability investment acutely reaffirms SABIC Innovative Plastics’ charge to barter in the arena with broadcast capabilities above those offered at the accepted CTC. It will aswell be the centermost of SABIC Innovative Plastics’ approaching appliance development activities here.

“Our connected investments in China will advanced SABIC Innovative Plastics’ continued attitude of acknowledging our Chinese and all-around barter in the arena with the avant-garde artefact solutions and outstanding abstruse abutment they charge to succeed,” Leung added. “Their success is our success and the ultimate admeasurement of our achievement.”

For added advice on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ resins and composites, amuse appointment the company’s website at www.sabic-ip.com.

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SABIC Innovative Plastics Media Contacts
The Americas
Christopher Tessier
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 448 6926
E-Mail: christopher.tessier@sabic-ip.com

Europe
Helen Vandebovenkamp
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 292 097
E-Mail: helen.vandebovenkamp@sabic-ip.com

Asia
Cecilia Siu
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 213 222 4500 Ext. 216
E-Mail: cecilia.siu@sabic-ip.com

Agency Media Contacts
The Americas
Jim Allison
AH&M Marketing Communications,
Pittsfield, Mass.
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Brazil
Gabriela Bruschi
Edelman Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Europe
Tessa Vroegop
Marketing Solutions, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
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Japan
Mitsu Sugino
Tokyo PR Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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China
Shona Liu
Edelman, Shanghai, China
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E-Mail: shona.liu@edelman.com

About SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics is a all-around supplier of artificial resins broadly acclimated in automotive, healthcare, chump electronics, transportation, achievement packaging, architecture and construction, telecommunications and optical media applications. The aggregation articles and compounds polycarbonate, ABS, ASA, PPE, PC/ABS, PBT and PEI resins, as able-bodied as the LNP band of high-performance specialty compounds, beneath such able-bodied accepted casting names as Lexan*, Cycolac*, Geloy*, Noryl*, Cycoloy*, Valox* and Ultem*.

The Specialty Film and Sheet analysis of SABIC Innovative Plastics articles high-performance Lexan area and blur articles acclimated in bags of ambitious applications worldwide. The committed automotive alignment is an experienced, common supplier, alms arch plastics solutions for 5 key automotive segments: anatomy panels and glazing; beneath the awning applications; component; structures and interiors; and lighting.

SABIC Innovative Plastics is allotment of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the 10 better petrochemicals manufacturers in the world.

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