Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., USA has announced the addition of a coatings and construction lab in its Shanghai Technical Center. With 20 additional chemists, the newly expanded technical center houses state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for research and development (R&D), application technology and services for coatings and construction, personal care, pharmaceutical, food and beverage customers in China. The facility is located in Shanghai’s Caohejing Industrial Park and currently employs approximately 50 chemists.