CHINA (Notifix) – Last week Henkel inaugurated the world’s largest adhesives factory in Shanghai.

With this new production facility the company is expanding its production capacity in a major emerging market and will deliver its innovative adhesive technologies more quickly to the growing number of customers based in China and the Asian region.

The new factory, which is also known as the “Dragon Plant” at Henkel, comprises 150,000 square meters of space and is now the central production site for industrial adhesives in China and the Asia-Pacific region.  Annual output is forecast to reach up to 428,000 metric tons of adhesives. “This new adhesives factory will contribute significantly to the achievement of our Strategy 2016: It will enable our Adhesives Business to expand and leverage its global reach, and win market share in emerging markets,” said Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of the Management Board of the Henkel Group.