As part of the global Marketing & Sales conference and the site's 50th anniversary, BYK Additives & Instruments is today officially opening its new lab building in Wesel, Germany.

Inside of two years' building activity, 8,000m2 of lab space and 130 jobs have been created.

Since end of 2011, some 80 lab staff have already been working there, primarily on developing innovative additives for plastics applications.