Ciba Specialty Chemicals has announced a major expansion of its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Monthey, Switzerland. A new production line is to be added to increase capacity for Ciba’s high-performance diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole (DPP) pigments. It will become operational in 2004.      “This expansion will allow us to keep up with the demand for high-performance pigments (HPP) based on DPP chemistry,” said Hermann Angerer, global head of Ciba Specialty Chemicals’ coating effects segmen...