Dynea Oy, which specializes in adhesive resins and paper overlays, has found Asia to be its strong growth market. The company, which has been operating in China for about twenty years, opened it's third new production plant in the country at the end of 2003.

The production plant opened in Guangdong Province produces adhesive resins for the rapidly expanding markets in southern China. The plant's annual capacity is 60,000 tonnes of adhesive resins that are used in the production of panel-boards, laminates, insulation wool, glass-fibre products, abrasives, foundry moulds, etc.

A paper impregnation line that produces overlays impregnated with phenolic resins will be completed at the site later this year. The line will produce about 35 million square metres of specialty papers used for the further processing of panel-boards and production of laminates.

Leader in Asia

"China and Asia as a whole are a clear growth market for all Dynea products. Our aim is to base our position on local production and customer service," says Mr. Kyösti Sysiö, Group Vice President, Corporate Development.

Dynea and its predecessors have been operating on the Chinese panel board adhesives and specialty adhesives markets since the beginning of the 1980s. At that time the company built the first formaldehyde and panel board adhesive plants for the Chinese woodprocessing industry. Today Dynea is the leading company in the field in China.

"Like many other Finnish and Scandinavian companies, we have a long history of promoting environment-friendly technologies and products. These values have taken priority in the design of Dynea's plants and production processes in China," Sysiö underlines.

The world's most international company specializing in adhesive and overlay solutions has production facilities in 24 countries. In the Pacific region Dynea produces adhesive resin not only in China but also in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand and Vietnam. Dynea also produces paper overlays in Indonesia.

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Dynea is one of the leading companies in its field in Asia. In North America and Europe the company is among the three biggest.