In this Christmas Week edition of Plastics News' Material Insights, senior reporter Frank Esposito examines three interesting compounding items. Mexichem SAB de CV is spending $300 million to buy compounder AlphaGary Corp. from Rockwood Holdings Inc. Ferco Color has opened a new compounding plant less than a mile away from its color concentrate facility in Ontario, Calif. And Houston compounder-recycler Birch Plastics has moved into a larger factory.
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