Evonik Industries Completes the Expansion for its Rohmax Oil Additives Technology Centre in Shanghai, China
• The expanded technology center is not only doubled in size, but also equipped with new advanced instruments and a bigger team of specialists
• Bringing the latest technology and industry trend to the China market
• And providing answers for the lubricant industry to the key challenges
Following the opening of its Rohmax Oil Additive Shanghai Technology Centre in 2005, Evonik Industries AG has successfully completed the Technology Center's expansion recently. The expanded technology centre is not only doubled in size, but also equipped with new advanced instruments, and more importantly, a bigger team of specialists. This also further strengthens Evonik's Business Line Lubricant Additives' position to provide its customers with state of the art solutions in China and in the region.
"China is of strategic importance to Evonik. Despite of the economic crisis, we continuously invest in this region. The expanded technology center demonstrates our confidence in the sustainable growth in China," said Dr. Dahai Yu, President of Evonik Greater China Region in his welcome speech at the ceremony.
The significance of the expansion of the technology center was also underscored by Mr. Norbert Westerholt, Head of Evonik's Business Line Lubricant Additives,"Our strategy is set industry standards for the global coverage, cost-effectiveness, tailor-made products, supply chain security, superior advanced technology and technical service." Westerholt added,"The expansion of the technology center is a clear message of RohMax's deepening commitment to our customers in the Greater China region. With the opening of our extended lab today we demonstrate deep understanding of the need of our customers for enhanced testing capabilities."
"2009 was a challenging year. The enhanced capabilities in the region will put Evonik in good stead to meet the forthcoming challenges in the upcoming years," stated Dr. Eric Fillod, Regional Manager of Evonik's Business Line Lubricant Additives in Asia Pacific. In his speech, he also introduced some new hardware, for example, KRL for shear stability requirements to stay in grade and also briefly touched on the challenges in the upcoming ILSAC GF5 introduction.
Evonik's Business Line Lubricant Additives is a leading global supplier of high performance VISCOPLEX® lubricant additives and VISCOBASE® synthetic base fluids for use in automotive and industrial lubricants. It also produces dewaxing aids used in refinery processing and cold flow improvers for biodiesel. For more information and its worldwide locations, please visit www.rohmax.com
About Evonik
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group from Germany which operates in three business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In its fiscal year 2008 about 41,000 employees generated sales of about €15.9 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.2 billion.
Evonik Industries has been producing specialty chemical products in China since the early 1990's; with wide-ranging trading relations already in place prior to this. The Group now has a total of 20 companies and 16 production sites in the region. In fiscal year 2008, 4,000 employees generated sales of over €820 million. Evonik regards China as one of the driving forces of the global economy, and we consequently intend to increase our business in Greater China to around €2 billion in the medium term.
