Swiss construction chemicals major Sika will invest around CHF 2.2 million (about $ 2.23 million) for the expansion of its production site in Bludenz, Austria. The company will add a warehouse and a manufacturing line for waterbars at the existing site. Sika has been producing construction chemicals in Vorarlberg since 1939, and has been continuously expanding the site since then.
Sika is positioning itself more broadly in Bludenz with the new manufacturing line, which will produce around 600,000 running meters of waterbars each year. Waterbars are used to waterproof buildings and other structures. Around 40,000 tonnes of construction chemicals such as mortars, synthetic resin floor coatings, concrete admixtures, waterbars and release agents are manufactured each year in Bludenz for the Austrian market plus other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.