Trinseo to build new Taiwan TPE pilot facility

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Trinseo has announced plans for a TPE pilot facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan, emphasising the company’s growth strategy for TPEs globally and serving the automotive, consumer electronics, footwear and medical markets.

The pilot facility will be built at Trinseo’s existing manufacturing site in Hsinchu and will begin operation in 2020.

The investment in a state-of-the art TPE pilot facility in Asia Pacific is the next step of Trinseo’s TPE growth roadmap following the acquisition of Italian-based API S.p.A, in July 2017. Once the new pilot line in Hsinchu is operational, Trinseo will locally produce its custom engineered TPE and TPU, including its leading bioplastics portfolio.

Tim Stedman, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development at Trinseo, said: “The pilot facility demonstrates our commitment to offer a differentiated, globally available TPE portfolio to our customers in the automotive, consumer electronics, footwear and medical markets. This investment in growth in the Asia Pacific region will further strengthen our ability to create growth synergies with customers between our rigid and soft-touch polymers.”

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