Bayer MaterialScience opens facility in UAE.

Bayer MaterialScience AG has established a new innovation center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This facility is the first development center for high quality polymer materials in the region to have access to a wide range of options for technical service, the development of new applications and training for customers and employees. The new center will supplement the company's existing regional head office in Dubai with regional customer support. The new center will include a showroom and an office complex for technically trained employees from all the Bayer MaterialScience business units in the region.

"The new facility will also supplement the existing Innovation Centers of Bayer MaterialScience in Leverkusen, Barcelona, Amagasaki, Pittsburgh and Sao Paulo as well as the recently expanded Polymer Research and Development Center in Shanghai and will cooperate with them intensively," said Ian Paterson, member of the Bayer MaterialScience Board of Management responsible for marketing and innovation. "This shall enable an efficient exchange of information and know-how to benefit customers in the Middle East."