SCAPA is heading behind the bamboo curtain.

The Blackburn-based firm has set up a joint venture with a Hong Kong and China sales and distribution company, Mei Wei.

Scapa has a 75 per cent shareholding in the new joint venture which will sell Scapa's range of industrial adhesive tapes and films.

"This is an important step in further establishing Scapa's presence in the Asian market and follows the opening of a representative office in South Korea in October 1998."

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