Celanese Opens Customer Color & Aesthetics Solution Center at Florence, Kentucky Engineered Materials Facility

Investment demonstrates long-term commitment to support ‘Art of
Material Selection’ for appearance markets

DALLAS & FLORENCE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$CE #Celanese–Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty
materials company, today announced the opening of a new Customer
Color & Aesthetics Solution Center at the company’s Florence,
Kentucky compounding and manufacturing facility to support the growth of
its engineered materials customer base and to enable close collaboration
in the selection and design of aesthetics products.

The new solution center will support original equipment manufacturers
and their tier suppliers in the automotive, consumer electronics,
appliance, medical device, toys, kitchen/bath, and other specialty
application industries.

Color technologists at the new Celanese solution center will collaborate
closely with industrial designers interested in product innovations for
appearance technologies using engineered materials. Customers can also
leverage one of the broadest polymer product portfolios in the industry
while incorporating the very latest color and appearance technologies.
The new center incorporates both instrumental and visual color
evaluation capabilities, accelerated weathering, laser marking,
state-of-the-art specialty compounding, and injection molding
infrastructure.

“Celanese is committed to investing in and growing our appearance and
color portfolio capabilities which serves multiple global customers,”
said Scott Richardson, Senior Vice President of Celanese’s engineered
materials business. “This new center augments our strong color matching
capabilities found in Germany, Italy, Mexico and China and will further
strengthen our engineered materials customer relationships and offer
access to some of our most critical market segments.”

“Celanese has a strong color capabilities track record and offers one of
the broadest and most differentiated product portfolios and technical
capabilities for appearance technologies in the thermoplastics
industry,” said Verghese Thomas, Vice President and Chief Technology &
Innovation Officer. “The capabilities at this new center will help
eliminate design complexity for customers and accelerate the appearance
project pipeline by providing enabling services including part design
and engineering analyses, prototyping, part processing, and advanced
testing and analytics.”

About Celanese

Celanese Corporation is a global technology leader in the production
of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in
most major industries and consumer applications. Our two complementary
business cores, Acetyl Chain and Materials Solutions, use the full
breadth of Celanese’s global chemistry, technology and business
expertise to create value for our customers and the corporation. As we
partner with our customers to solve their most critical business needs,
we strive to make a positive impact on our communities and the world
through The Celanese Foundation. Based in Dallas, Celanese employs
approximately 7,500 employees worldwide and had 2016 net sales of $5.4
billion. For more information about Celanese and our product offerings,
visit www.celanese.com
or our blog at www.celaneseblog.com.

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Corporation or its affiliates.

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Contacts

Celanese
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