High-performance casting lubes firm expands its Qingpu plant to better service local customers
Alongside industry partner Kluber Lubrication, US-based Chem-Trend is investing over 150m yuan ($24m) to expand its existing facility, located on the outskirts of Shanghai. The existing site already offers a host of speciality chemicals and manufacturing process aids.
As well as upgrading existing facilities, the new site will also include an extensive research and development centre to focus on providing bespoke solutions for customers in the region. Further enhancements, according to Chem-Trend, will include upgraded training and administration facilities. The new 16-acre site should become operational by 2017.
According to Chem-Trend President and CEO Devanir Moraes, "customer proximity and hands-on customer service have always been at the core of our successful global growth... the new R&D center in Qingpu will enable us to better meet the ever-increasing requirements of local customers for tailor-made answers to their specific manufacturing needs."