PolyOne Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio; www.polyone.com) is establishing a new innovation center in Shanghai, China. The new site will facilitate collaboration, accelerate application development and increase speed-to-market for customers in the Asia Pacific region.
The state-of-the-art facility will be strategically located in a new high-tech industrial park in the JinQiao Development Zone in Shanghai, and will focus on research and development projects generated within the company’s Specialty Engineered Materials business segment. The new innovation center is expected to open in the fourth quarter of 2014.