Rohm and Haas Company has recently celebrated the inauguration of its second acrylic emulsions facility in India. The Chennai facility, located in the Sriperumbudur industrial area of Tamil Nadu in South India, is opening with the capacity to make 30,000 to 40,000 metric tons per year of specialty materials used in the manufacture of paint and coatings, adhesives, textiles, paper and leather. The plant, which cost $12 million to build, is a “zero discharge” facility that meets the environmental standards set by the state of Tamil Nadu. 
The company is also doubling the capacity of its 35,000 metric ton facility in Taloja and Chennai to 100,000-110,000 metric tons per year, making Rohm and Haas India’s largest and fastest-growing producer of environmentally-advanced emulsions and additives for paints and coatings and other water-based polymer industries.