The new plant is located in Changzhou Binjiang Industrial Park, with a land coverage of 20,000 m². The first compounds for the local market will be produced at this site in 2021. The automotive, electro- and electronics as well as various other industries will be the main customer industries.
AKRO Engineering Plastics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004 and started operation in the beginning of 2005 in Tongli, Jiangsu Province. The plant was moved within Jiangsu Province to Wujiang in 2010. In order to meet the growing market demand, the company decided to build a new plant in Changzhou in 2019, which will operate under the name AKRO-PLASTIC Engineering Plastics (Changzhou) Co. Ltd. The company will be able to provide more customers in PR China and other Asian countries with engineering plastics from this new and state-of-the-art production site.
“AKRO-PLASTIC started its operation in China already in 2004 and we are looking back to 15 successful years. I am very happy to be part of this ceremony today as I am convinced that it will open another very promising chapter for us in China”, says Wilfried Jobst, Managing Director of AKRO Engineering Plastics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
