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(Plastics Today) -- PolyOne will
open a new polymer distribution warehouse and sales facility focused on serving
healthcare customers in Shanghai on July 1 - the first PolyOne Distribution unit
outside the U.S. Announced at MD&M East, PolyOne officials said the new
center, which will be collocated with an existing PolyOne color and engineering
materials manufacturing and sales facility, will shorten lead times for its
customers in China to days, not weeks.
Michael L. Rademacher, president PolyOne Distribution, told PlasticsToday
that his company made the move to follow its customers within the medical
segment. "[PolyOne] has a significant presence in the distribution segment of
the healthcare market here in the U.S.," Rademacher said, "and many of our
customers here have opened up, or will be opening up, operations in China, and
they really wanted to get us engaged and involved over there".
PolyOne's existing 90,000-sq-ft facility is located in the Waigaoqiao
Free Trade Zone. Based in the northeast of Pudong New Area, the free-trade zone,
which will allow PolyOne to import materials for its customers duty free, is
adjacent to the mouth of Yangtze River and about 20 km from downtown Shanghai.
PolyOne plans to broaden its distribution service to customers in other
industries over the next twelve months.
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