Bluestar Silicones investing €15m in elastomer units

 Lyon, France – Bluestar Silicones International is investing €15m to develop and modernise its elastomer production units, the company announced 25 June.

The programme is focused particularly on the company’s Saint Fons site in France and is intended to raise capacity and productivity and improve the quality of Bluestar’s elastomer products.

The investment will help Bluestar to meet increasingly stringent requirements of industries including automotive, aviation and medical, the company said.

“With this substantil investment on the French Saint Fons site, Bluestar Silicones reiterates its determination to consolidate its co-leadership position in Europe on heat cured elastomer products and to continue development under the best possible conditions of productivity and quality at its mix and fix service centres throughout the world,” said Frédéric Jacquin, CEO of Bluestar.

The investment “ensures the elastomer business will continue over the long term on our historic site and will be accompanied by additional R&D and marketing resources to prepare for the future as best we can,” added Mehdi Abbadi, global director of this business.