Bostik starts adhesives plant in Malaysia

The adhesives manufacturer Bostik, a subsidiary of the French oil and gas company Total SA, has opened a powder plant in Malaysia to serve local and Singapore construction markets. A new facility producing tile adhesive and related cementitious powder products will provide better, faster service to the Group’s clients and support the numerous new construction projects in the region.
 
With this new production plant near the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru, Bostik, the leading global adhesive specialist for industrial manufacturing, construction and consumer markets, has expanded its cementitious powder manufacturing capabilities. With a 1,500 sq m footprint, the plant has a capacity estimated at 14,000 metric tonnes per year.
 
The new facility will manufacture several types of products for the construction industry: cementitious tile adhesives (CTA) including classifications class C2S1, C2E and C1E, non-shrink grout and skim coat. These product groups are based on Bostik’s world-class Polymer Modified Binder (PMB) technology platform which remains a focus of its ongoing innovation, research and development activities. As a result of this expansion, well-known products such as Excel-Flex, Maxi-Flex, Super-Fixall and Ultra-Mastik will now be more readily available to building professionals in southern Malaysia and Singapore.
 
Bernard Pinatel, CEO, Bostik, said, “We are delighted to be bringing our innovative PMB technologies closer to fast-developing markets such as Malaysia and Singapore. We are sure that this brand new production unit will bring substantial benefit to the construction projects planned and already underway locally, and more widely to all of our clients in southern Malaysia and Singapore.”