Arkema expands Kynar PVDF production capacity in China

Arkema announces a 20% expansion of production capacity at its Changshu Kynar PVDF manufacturing site in China, scheduled to start up in 2028.

Arkema Kynar PVDF manufacturing facility located in Changshu, China.

This significant investment reflects the Group’s strategy to increase its Kynar PVDF footprint at a pace and with capabilities that match the strong and accelerating demand across all key markets in Asia-Pacific region and beyond, including lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EV) and energy storage systems (ESS), high-performance coatings, chemical processing industries, semiconductor manufacturing, water filtration, and wire and cable.

“This expansion marks an exciting milestone for Arkema, as we are investing once again with confidence to increase and strengthen our capabilities in Changshu,” commented Laurent Tellier, Senior Vice-President of Arkema’s High Performance Polymers and Fluorogases.

The project is supported by Arkema’s robust global R&D ecosystem, which ensures the Group’s innovation leadership in PVDF advanced applications and technologies. This ecosystem includes the Changshu R&D center in China, as well as R&D centers in France, Japan, South Korea and in the United States.

Together, these laboratories enable Arkema to collaborate closely with customers and accelerate development of high-performance solutions for the energy transition and advanced manufacturing industries.

Arkema is a global leader in PVDF production, with the Changshu platform as its largest manufacturing site worldwide. The Group also produces PVDF in Calvert City, Kentucky in the US, where a new capacity increase was announced last year and will start up in the second quarter of 2026, as well as in its Pierre-Benite site in France.