Fibre2Fashion Toggle navigation 05 Pic: Elkem Elkem Silicones, a leading integrated silicones provider, is building a new workshop to produce low viscosity silicone fluids for textile and leather, and personal care markets in Asia Pacific. The new textile and leather workshop, to be located at its Xinghuo site, the largest silicones manufacturing site in China, will start operations in January 2022. “The new workshop is a key strategic investment for Elkem as it seeks to continuously expand our personal care and textile and leather markets across the globe and notably in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region. When in full operation, the new workshop will have a capacity of eleven thousand tons per year,” said Frederic Jacquin, senior vice president of Elkem Silicones, “The large availability of upstream intermediates in our Xinghuo plant and the very high growth rate of both markets in Asia Pacific region were the two key elements which decided the location of this new investment.”