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Celanese expands ATC in Shanghai

11 Oct '24

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Celanese Corporation has expanded its Asia Technology Centre (ATC) in Shanghai, enhancing innovation and technical capabilities to support growing markets like electric vehicles, clean energy, and 5G.
The centre offers advanced labs, product development, and material design, aiming to accelerate customer success across Asia and globally.

Celanese Corporation, a global specialty materials and chemical company, unveiled its expanded Asia Technology Center (ATC) in Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China. Equipped with world class technical capabilities and talent, the enhanced center demonstrates the company’s commitment to accelerating innovation and services while contributing to the long-term success of its customers and the community both in Asia and globally.

The Celanese ATC brings together industry-leading lab capabilities and expertise in product development, material design, computer aided engineering, color matching, processing, advanced analytics and part testing to support both its Acetyl Chain and Engineered Materials businesses, especially in fast-growing markets such as electric vehicles, 5G, clean energy, building and construction, adhesives, carpet, paints and coatings, and more.

“Asia is a growing market for our Engineered Materials business and the expanded ATC will bring innovative solutions to support the fast paced development of the Asia and global markets,” said Stefan Kutta, vice president of global automotive for Celanese. “We can now offer our partners and customers expanded solutions to accelerate innovation for automotive, clean energy and emerging markets.”

“The center will be the latest example of our collective Celanese commitment to innovation,” said Pedro Van Hoecke, vice president of global technology and innovation for Celanese. “Our technical expertise and advanced capabilities enable us to develop materials solutions with our customers in the early stage of product design while focusing on how to best achieve long-term success.”

The enhanced ATC contains industry-leading laboratories, such as the unique Noise, Vibration and Harshness laboratory, the certified UL DAP (Data Acceptance Program) laboratory and the comprehensive elastomer processing laboratory, which can fasten the new product development, validation and the delivery speed for customers.

In addition, the ATC houses an innovation center showcasing the company’s latest solutions to customers, which helps drive further innovation and collaboration across various industries.