Reynolds Advanced Materials Inc. has acquired Eager Polymers and its distribution business in mold-making materials, epoxies and urethanes. Mark Villegas, who sold the business, will continue distributing other materials as the 13-year owner of Castolite Co.
Eager Polymers was a distributor for Reynolds and a Reynolds-related company, Smooth-On Inc., for many years. Now Villegas will focus on composite mold making, casting resins, fiberglass, marine gelcoats, custom colorants and thermoset plastics including silicone rubber and two-part liquid urethane materials.
With the sale, Villegas said Nov. 17 by phone, he will no longer need his Chicago warehouse. He plans to move Castolite to a smaller location in Lemont, Ill., about 25 miles southwest of Chicago. The move will probably take place in about six months, he added.
Eager Polymers was founded in 1975 as Eager Plastics. Villegas, who had been with the company since 1997, bought the company in 2006 and changed the named to Eager Polymers.
Reynolds bills itself as providing "materials for making things."
"Our customers use our products to make film and stage special effects, animatronics, robotics, scale models, sculpture, prototypes, cast architectural elements, industrial parts [and] cast concrete," Reynolds says on its LinkedIn page.
It offers silicone rubbers, liquid plastics, foams, epoxies and urethane rubbers and has 11 U.S. locations and one in Edmonton, Canada. The company began in 1967 and is based in Macungie, Pa., near Allentown, as is Smooth-On.
Smooth-On, which has been around since 1895, custom formulates materials at its 370,000-square-foot plant, warehouse and lab. Its products include plastics, epoxies, adhesives and rubbers (polyurethane, silicone and polysulfide), rigid and flexible urethane foams, epoxies, adhesives, coatings and release agents.