Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc. will open an additives and pigment plant in Singapore later this year.
The Tamaqua-based firm - which also makes additives and pigments in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Scotland - had received numerous requests from customers to place a plant in Asia, market development manager Peter Stone said.
Recent development work at Silberline has focused on the functional benefits of metallic pigments. To date, those products have been marketed based on their aesthetic appeal, Stone said.