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Rockwood Press Release
Chemetall Inaugurates New Surface Treatment Plant
In Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil
Chemetall do Brasil - a central hub for South American manufacturers
Princeton, NJ USA (April 12, 2010) – Chemetall Surface Treatment, a unit of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ROC), has announced the formal opening of its production facility in Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, for Thursday, April 15.
The new production facility will provide enhanced capabilities to various manufacturing sectors, including automotive, auto parts, aerospace, cold forming (tube and wire mills), general industry (appliances, aluminum finishing) as well as steel and aluminum mills. Chemetall, which has been operating in Brazil for over 20 years, has located the new plant closer to customers, in a very promising region near to the international airports of Viracopos and Guarulhos, the Port of Santos and major highways.
The new facility comprises a 4,590-square-meter plant on a 15,000-square-meter site. The full-service plant has a complete infrastructure and is supported by 80 employees committed to customer service.
Commenting on the new facility, Luiz Guilherme Auresco, managing director Chemetall do Brasil, said, “Chemetall established its operations in Brazil. Last year we set up the new plant in Jundiaí. We chose Jundiaí for its strategic position and logistics. Moreover, the new Chemetall plant allows us to meet our current customers’ demands and expand our customer base.”
He added, “The new plant has enabled us to expand our workforce in the Jundiaí region and substantially increase production volume. Ninety percent of our employees are from Jundiaí and the surrounding region.”
Chemetall is committed to environmental protection and preservation. In addition to having ISO 9001 (2008) and ISO TS 16949 (2009) certifications, Chemetall is pursuing ISO1400 certification. The new plant minimizes our environmental impact through the use of natural ventilation and lighting. “Our new treatment plant will assure the quality of water that we use in our production processes. We are also introducing thin film technology in the Brazilian market, which will replace traditional heavy metal pretreatment processes with environmentally sustainable alternatives. By converting the process to our Oxsilan technology, our customers will reduce both their energy and water consumption considerably and realize important savings in process costs,” emphasized João Carlos Grecco, the technical director.
“Chemetall do Brasil is fully committed to its motto, ‘much more than chemistry.’ Brazil is a very important market with a large potential for growth. We invested in the building of this new facility to serve a growing customer base,” stated Luiz Guilherme Auresco.
Chemetall, a unit of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC), is a global company committed to specialty chemistry with 3,000 employees worldwide. The group's activities focus on products and processes for the chemical treatment of metal surfaces and plastics, as well as selected fields of fine chemistry, including lithium and cesium compounds. For more information, please visit www.chemetall.com.
Rockwood Holdings, Inc. is a leading global specialty chemicals and advanced materials company. Rockwood has a worldwide employee base of approximately 9,500 people and annual net sales of approximately $3.0 billion. Rockwood focuses on global niche segments of the specialty chemicals, pigments and additives and advanced materials markets. For more information on Rockwood, please visit www.rocksp.com.
The information set forth in this press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning the business, operations and financial condition of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Rockwood"). Words such as "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "expects," "forecasts," "predicts" and variations of such words or expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although Rockwood believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that its expectations will be realized. "Forward-looking statements" consist of all non-historical information, including any statements referring to the prospects and future performance of Rockwood. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in Rockwood's forward-looking statements due to numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including, among other things, the "Risk Factors" described in Rockwood's 2008 Form 10-K on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rockwood does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which any such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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