Sheikh Khaled Bin Abdullah Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of Department of Seaports & Customs, Hamriyah Free Zone Authority and Sharjah Airport International Free Zone, tours after the opening of Visen Polymers FZA on Sunday at Hamriyay Free Zone in Sharjah
VISEN Industries Ltd, the largest manufacturer of polymer emulsions for paints and coatings, textiles and adhesives in Indi , will commence its commercial production from Hamriyah Free Zone from the first week of April.
Sheikh Khaled Bin Abdullah Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of Department of Seaports & Customs, Hamriyah Free Zone Authority and Sharjah Airport International Free Zone, opened the new plant on Sunday.
“Our plant in HFZA is our first one in the Middle East and we seek to meet the increasing demand of this growing market by taking advantage of the facilities provided by HFZA”, Vijay S. Nair, managing director of Visen Polymers FZE, said after the opening ceremony.
“Visen Polymers FZE at HFZ has a capacity of 120,000 metric tons per annum and is the single largest polymer emulsion plant in the region,” he added.
The $51 million (AED187 million) plant has a total land area of about 78,000 sq. meters. This state-of-the-art plant has DCS controlled systems with the latest manufacturing techniques to produce world-class quality products consistently.
And, for developing new grades and improving the performance of existing grades the unit is equipped with an up-to-date R&D center where synthesis, instrument analysis and application parameters are checked.
“The plant also has a well-defined ETP facility to take care of environmental aspects and the effluents generated are treated and used in the process.
In addition, it also has direct pipeline connection to the port and adequate storage tanks to store monomer and finished products within the plant,” said Vijay S. Nair.
Saudi Arabia is our main market in the region and we will focus more on Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries from our Sharjah plant, he added.
“Visen’s HFZA facility has adequate land available for expanding our capacity to 300,000 metric tons per annum which we plan to accomplish in the next three years,” he added. — SG.
