Polymer plant established in China

Polymer Group has opened its new Asian region head office in Suzhou, China, and includes spunmelt manufacturing and finishing lines that will begin operations mid-year.
Polymer Group has opened its new Asian region head office in Suzhou, China, bringing a newly constructed manufacturing plant together with administrative functions under one roof. The new site in the Suzhou Industrial Park houses state-of-the-art spunmelt manufacturing and finishing lines that will begin operations mid-year, serving the medical and hygiene markets with quality, high-performance engineered materials. 'The new Asian headquarters will facilitate greater collaboration and cooperation among our teams, and also puts the leadership for the Asian business in the same location as our newest manufacturing site,' said Jay Cheng, vice president and general manager, PGI Asia.

Finance operations, headed by PGI Asia's new Financial Director ZQ Zhan, as well as information technology, sales and marketing, and administrative support, will be based at this office in the growing Shanghai region.

The Suzhou manufacturing operations make PGI the largest spunmelt supplier in China and the country's only vertically integrated producer of finished medical fabrics.

The new, multi-beam Reifenhauser line will manufacture ultra-high-performance medical barrier fabrics, including PGI's MediSoft products.

The world-class finishing line installed at the new location will provide customers with treated medical fabrics produced in a pristine environment to meet the highest quality standards.

At PGI's Nanhai location, the recently installed advanced chemical bonding is ramping up and will also serve the hygiene and medical markets.

Polymer Group, one of the world's leading producers of nonwovens, is a global, technology-driven developer, producer and marketer of engineered materials.

With the broadest range of process technologies in the nonwovens industry, PGI is a global supplier to leading consumer and industrial product manufacturers.

The company operates 22 manufacturing facilities throughout the world.