The company is also doubling the capacity of its 35,000-metric-ton facility in Taloja, which is located near Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra. The combined capacity of Taloja and Chennai makes Rohm and Haas one of India’s largest and fastest-growing producers of environmentally advanced emulsions and additives for coatings and other water-based polymer industries.
Rohm and Haas Expands in India
Mumbai, India/Philadelphia - Rohm and Haas Company
inaugurated its second acrylic emulsions facility in India, located in the
Sriperambudur industrial area of Tamil Nadu in South India. The Chennai
facility is opening with the capacity to make 30,000-40,000 metric tons a year
of specialty materials used in the manufacture of paint and coatings,
adhesives, textiles, paper and leather. The plant, which cost $12 million to
build, is a zero-discharge facility that meets very stringent environmental
standards set by the state of Tamil Nadu.