Honeywell Specialty Materials Expands Asian Research and Development Center

$3.2 million investment will triple laboratory space to meet growing needs in Asia markets

15-Nov-2006

Honeywell Specialty Materials announced that it will expand its Shanghai-based Asia Technology Center to boost its research and development capability and meet increasing customer needs in Asian markets, particularly China. The $3.2-million expansion shall triple laboratory space for Specialty Materials in Asia. The new lab space is part of a larger, $13.5-million expansion of Honeywell lab and administrative space at the facility, which is located in Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai.

Specialty Materials currently has 17,000 square feet (1,600 square meters) of research space at the Shanghai facility. The 16 Specialty Materials labs at the Honeywell facility, which opened in 2004, include six analytical labs, four chemical synthesis labs, three application labs, and two electronic material development labs. Current research projects focus on fluorine chemicals, specialty chemicals, electronics materials and performance materials used for application-related research and development.

The new expansion shall add 39,000 square feet (3,600 square meters) of research space. Ten new labs will be added, including a clean room and chemical blending lab for electronic materials research; an air conditioning and heat pump lab; and a high bay area for a polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, extrusion line to develop, test and evaluate performance additives. Construction of the new buildings is expected to start this month and be completed in July 2007.

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