(hydrocarbonprocessing) -- BASF on Monday announced plans to build a new production plant for emulsion polymers at its integrated "Verbund" site in Freeport, Texas.
The new plant will allow BASF to better serve the coatings, construction, adhesives, and paper industries by expanding the network of manufacturing locations and improve the backward integration of raw materials used in production, according to the company.
The new plant, which is expected to begin production in mid-2014, will create approximately 25 new jobs at the Freeport site.
"The new plant strengthens our position as a leading supplier of emulsions in North America and demonstrates our commitment to customers in the coatings, construction, adhesives and paper industries," said Derek Fairclough, senior vice president for BASF's dispersions and pigments business line in North America.
BASF currently operates three emulsion polymer plants in North America in Monaca, Pennsylvania; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Altamira, Mexico.
Building a plant in Texas broadens the supply network to better serve customers from a manufacturing location in the central-southern US, the company said.
BASF is also building new manufacturing facilities for emulsion polymers in India after opening new plants in South Africa during September 2012 and in China during November 2012.
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