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Comar to settle into industrial site

This plant will service European and other overseas customers. Amongst the new location's activities will be Comar's R&D efforts to develop ispeciality chemicals. Comar's products include rare earth catalysts that are used in the synthetic rubber industry to manufacture advanced rubber types. These are used to produce car tyres with lower rolling resistance, leading to lower CO2 emissions of cars.

Comar is the first company to settle at Infrapark Baselland industrial park, which is owned by Clariant, since its launch at the beginning of January 2011.Comar will join PanGas, Bayer and Aprentas, the training association of the Basel chemical and pharmaceutical industry, who were already operating in the area prior to its transformation into a dedicated industrial park.