Clariant and Tiangang form joint venture in China

Clariant, a world leader in speciality chemicals, has signed a joint venture contract with Tiangang Auxiliary, a privately owned producer and leading supplier of UV light stabilisers in China.

Clariant’s Performance Additives business and Tiangang will establish a world-class production facility in China to meet the growing local demand for process and light stabiliser additives in various growing industries, such as textiles or automotive.

"The partnership with Tiangang is another successful step toward strengthening Clariant’s position in China,” said Christian Kohlpaintner, Clariant’s Executive Committee Member residing in China.

"It provides us with a stronger local footprint to better position our innovative solutions in the growing Asia region, especially in China.

"Furthermore, by cooperating with a leading Chinese company like Tiangang, we can exchange best practices and valuable market insights in order to deliver ever-more tailored solutions to our customers.”

China is one of the key markets for high-end process and light stabilisers, which include the state-of-the-art Nylostab S-EED chemistry, invented by Clariant.

To support the growing demand of customers in China, Clariant and Tiangang will jointly manufacture process and light stabilisers and plan to install a new production site in the Cangzhou National Coastal-Port Economy and Technology Development Zone, Hebei province.

Production is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2019.

The joint venture also plans to expand its offering of solutions for the automotive industry in the future.

Commenting on the joint venture, Stephan Lynen, Head of Clariant BU Additives, said: "The production joint venture with Tiangang significantly strengthens our ability to serve the strongly growing demand for high-end additives solutions in Asia.

"Having local production with a well established and trusted partner improves proximity to our customers and to our raw material suppliers.

"This will enable us to accelerate response times and shorten supply lead times."

Gang Liu, Vice President, Tiangang comments: "Established in 1991, Tiangang has been a trusted supplier for the polymer industry with a complete range of light stabiliser products and solutions.

"By partnering with Clariant, a world-leading innovative pioneer in additives development, we look forward to combining the rich technology and production knowledge of both companies to provide the best value-adding solutions and products to the polymer industry with world-class quality and services."

The joint venture follows Clariant’s announcement in May 2017 of an investment in Zhenjiang, China, which will create a state-of-the-art production facility for AddWorks, synergistic additive solutions and Ceridust, micronised waxes serving the plastics, coatings and inks industries.

It is scheduled to come on stream in the second half of 2018.