Products and Investments Products, customers and applications Division Products Customer industries and applications Catalysts Automotive catalysts, process catalysts and technologiesBattery materialsPrecious and base metal services Automotive, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, refineries, battery manufacturers, solutions for the protection of air quality as well as the production of fuels, chemicals, plastics and battery materials Coatings Coatings solutions for automotive applications, technology and system solutions for surface treatments, decorative paints Automotive industry, body shops, steel industry, aviation, aluminum applications in the architecture and construction industries, household appliances, painting businesses and private consumers Material investments Location Project Startup Caojing, China Capacity expansion: resin plant 2020 Greenville, Ohio Capacity expansion: resin plant 2021 Harjavalta, Finland Construction: precursor plant for cathode active materials 2022 Jiangmen, China Capacity expansion: automotive refinish coatings plant 2022 Münster, Germany Construction: plant for coating functional films 2020 Construction: laboratory building for automotive coatings 2022 Replacement: small can filling and packaging system 2021 Construction: cathodic dip coating line 2022 Pinghu, China New surface treatment site 2021 Shanghai, China Construction: plant for mobile emissions catalysts 2019/2020 Schwarzheide, Germany Construction: cathode active materials plant 2022 Środa Śląska, Poland Capacity expansion: plant for mobile emissions catalysts 2020 back next