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Material Insights: Dec. 13, 2010

Published: December 13, 2010 6:00 am ET
Updated: December 13, 2010 12:00 am ET

Senior reporter Frank Esposito tracks end-of-year developments among color concentrates makers, bioplastics suppliers and compounders in this week's Material Insights. Plastics News has learned that Ampacet Corp. is expanding in United States, Brazil, India and Italy; FKuR Kunstoff GmbH is to have a new factory in Michigan by mid-2011; and FRX Polymers Inc. is making its specialty flame-retardant polyphosphonate resin in Domat Ems, Switzerland.

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