Fletcher Building's Formica Group has just opened a new factory in China, said to be the largest developed by a New Zealand business there.
Mark Adamson, Fletcher chief executive, announced the opening of Formica's new laminates plant in Jiujiang, a city of about 4.8 million people in the Jiangxi province.
The plant is one of the largest of the American-headquartered Formica and doubles the company's capacity in China.
Formica has been in China for more than 20 years and last decade, undertook the construction and commissioning of a new plant in Qing Pu, on the outskirts of Shanghai.
Adamson said the new Jiujiang plant had 10 production presses capable of producing 45 million square metres of laminate annually.
