Materials Suppliers
The deal includes compounding and fluoropolymers businesses, both based in Nesquehoning, Pa.
Plastics executives at a recent conference talked about going on the offense in their public image battles, and looked at what companies in competing industries have done.
DuPont Co.'s list of items to be sold include nylon, first developed in 1939. It would trade away a long-standing business in favor of opportunities for future markets.
Teknor Apex Co. has added a new Arvitec coextrusion line at its application development laboratory in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.
The purchase of J. Meyer & Sons Inc. is the ninth acquisition in three years for Illinois-based Chroma.
Sales at the Houston-based resin maker and compounder were up almost 87 percent compared to the same period in 2020.
The Ohio-based materials supplier saw sales growth of 32 percent for the three-month period.
Hexpol AB has seen third quarter sales and earnings grow year-over-year, but continued shortage of raw materials and disruptions in automotive production has impacted the results of the Swedish polymer compounder.
Elkem announced a $42 million expansion to support demand growth for specialty silicones in the Americas and the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
Hamburg, Germany-based Mocom was spun off from Albis Plastics, a leading European resin distributor, in October 2020. Both of those businesses — along with recycler Wipag — are part of Otto Krahn Group.
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