Bioplastics firm moving Shanghai production to New York state

摘要

A U.S. bioplastics company is moving production from China to a site near Rochester, N. Y.,USA next year. Trellis Earth Products Inc. will invest $8.3 million to set up production of starch-filled polypropylene and downstream products in a former 80,000-square-foot Eastman Kodak facility in Gates, N. Y. Trellis Chief Operating Officer Craig Mittelstaedt said that costs of producing in China have risen dramatically, convincing the firm to move production to the United States. Trellis sources its patented bioplastic products from two companies in Shanghai. When the firm was founded, in 2006, it calculated production in China was less costly than making products in North America.