Spartech Opens Technology & Innovation Center
Spartech Corporation, a leading producer of plastic products including polymeric compounds, concentrates, custom extruded sheet and roll stock and packaging technologies recently celebrated the Grand Opening of its new 90,000 square foot technology center with employees, customers, supplier partners, shareholders and the local community.

Spartech began to occupy the location this past December 2010 with new technical and market development resources and a number of employees relocating to St. Louis, Missouri from former product development and material science centers in Indiana and Pennsylvania. The new facility, which makes extensive use of both sunlight and energy-efficient electrical lighting, contains areas where customers and Spartech scientists, technology and marketing experts, design engineers and commercial development engineers can work alongside each other to find new ways of creating sustainable product solutions with less impact on the environment.

The new facility allows Spartech to house its core capabilities of material science expertise, processing knowledge and creative design capabilities all under one roofÉadvancing ideas to solutions faster for the benefit of customers. The nearly $6 million facility includes compounding, extrusion and thermoforming development lines, full physical, analytical, weathering and burn testing capabilities, open work space for employees to promote interaction across business divisions leading to cross-functional development like never before and plenty of conference room space to host customers and suppliers for collaborative discussions.

For more information, contact Christi Emmenegger, Spartech Corporation, 120 South Central Avenue, Suite 1700, Clayton, MO 63105, 888-721-4242/314-721- 4242, Fax: 314-721-1447, Web: www.spartech.com.