China XD Plastics to construct new facility

China XD Plastics Company Limited, one of China’s leading specialty chemical players engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of polymer composites primarily for automotive applications, has broken ground on a 300,000-tonne polymer composites production and R&D project in Southwest China that would expand production capacity by 300,000 metric tonnes and equipped with a professional research and development centre and an independent training centre.

China XD’s southwest expansion project is situated in Nanchong City, Sichuan province, the hub of the economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing. Within a 500-kilometre radius of the construction site, there are factories for automotive manufacturers such as First Automobile Group, Shanghai GM, Volvo, Changan Ford and Dongfeng, etc. The region is also home to industries of high-end applications that the company has been pursuing, including China Southern Rail Corporation and China Northern Rail Corporation in the high-speed railway sector, and Xi’an Aircraft Industry (Group) Company Limited, Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Company Limited and Guizhou Aviation Industry (Group) Company Limited, etc. The mayor and municipal party secretary of Nanchong City joined the groundbreaking ceremony, marking the official commencement of the project in the southwest.

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