Sensient Technologies has opened facilities in Guangzhou and Shanghai, China. The new 62,000ft2 Guangzhou location includes a four-storey office and laboratory building, a manufacturing plant and a separate fragrance building.

Sensient has also opened a state-of-the-art technical centre and sales office in Shanghai. The centre will feature the latest lab equipment and an ultra high temperature process pilot plant.

Customers will be able to customise and sample foods and beverages featuring Sensient colours and flavours in a sophisticated application kitchen.

Kenneth P. Manning, chairman and CEO of Sensient Technologies said: “China's emerging middle-class constitutes an important new market for our products, one that has already begun to contribute to Sensient's growth and will gain in importance going forward.”

With the addition of these facilities in Guangzhou and Shanghai, Sensient now has a presence in five locations in China, including a plant for processing precursors to flavours in Qingdao, as well as offices and laboratories in Beijing and Hong Kong.