Shanghai/Leverkusen, November 16, 2011 – The Bayer Group plans to further expand its production, distribution network and research activities in Asia and considerably increase its sales in the region in the coming years. “We aim to achieve a more than 60 percent increase in our sales in Asia by 2015,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said on Wednesday at Bayer’s international press conference “ Perspective on Growth in Asia,” held in Shanghai, China. This would mean annual sales of well over EUR 11 billion by 2015 at today’s exchange rates. Of this figure, Greater China is planned to account for some EUR 6 billion. Dekkers officially inaugurated a new production facility for TDI – a raw material for the production of flexible foams – at the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai. Read more here.