Umicore NV/SA to Establish New Production Facility for Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles in China

Umicore NV/SA announced that it is to construct production facility in China for automotive catalysts used in heavy duty diesel (HDD) vehicles. The new facility will be built close to the Company's existing automotive catalysts plant and technology development centre in the Suzhou Industrial Park and is planned to be operational in early 2014. The facility will produce Selective Catalytic Reduction systems (SCR) for NOx aftertreatment for the new China IV emission standards, which will come into force in July 2013.