Bluestar Silicones opens new South Carolina manufacturing facility
The new plant is part of its five year strategic growth plan to double sales
Bluestar Silicones has opened a new plant and R&D centre in York, South Carolina. The company said the multi-million dollar plant forms the centrepiece of its strategic growth plan to become a premier supplier in the silicones industry and it aims to double sales over the next five years.
Bluestar has relocated its two US manufacturing facilities in Ventura, California and Rock Hill, South Carolina to the new 226,000 sq ft building. Silicone technologies produced at the York centre include liquid silicone rubbers, high consistency rubbers, room temperature vulcanised silicones, fluids, dispersions, specialty fluids, resins and antifoams, marketed under its Silbione, Silcolease, Lyndcoat and Bluesil trade names.
The new facility is also now the main R&D centre for Bluestar Silicones in North America, bringing the company’s R&D personnel together under one roof.
“Our sizeable footprint in York will give us ample room to expand workshops, supporting existing specialty markets along with entry into new markets,” said J Christopher York, president of Bluestar Silicones North America.
