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Rohm and Haas to purchase Morton International Rohm and Haas is to acquire German company Morton International for a cash and stock transaction worth US$4.9 billion, including the assumption ofUS$268 million of net debt. The deal will create a global speciality chemicals company with a
combined annual turnover of US$6.5 billion. J Lawrence Wilson, chairman and chief executive officer of Rohm and Haas said that the move was a transforming step for Rohm and Haas and the new company would be a leader in
high growth speciality chemicals. He added that the Morton businesses would complement Rohm and Haas' plastics additives and biocides products. This would add heat stabilizers and lubricants to Rohm and Haas' line of impact mod-
EIf Atochem plans new additives facility ElfAtochem has announced plans to constrtlct a new plastics additives plant at its Vlissingen site in the Netherlands. The facility will manufacture acrylic impact modifiers Durastrength * and processing aids Metablen ® P. Start-up is scheduled for the end of 1999. The company says that these additives will
be directed at the fast growing PVC window profile market and in engineering plastics. According to the company, the new plant will enable Elf Atochem and Metablen, a 50/50 joint venture between ElfAtochem and Mitsubishi Rayon, to raise the total capacity of the Vlissingen acrylic plastics additives plant to
30,000 tonnes per year. ElfAtochem operates plastics additives plants in Europe, USA, Japan and China, generating sales of US$300 million. The company says that it is committed to expanding and consolidating its international position in performance products.
New service optimizes extruder performance UK company Screwtech Engineering has launched a new service for optimizing extruder performance and production line efficient> The service entails Screwtech engineers visiting a plant to establish a twin screw extruder's process operating conditions and identifying the screw profile geometry. Using CAD soft-
training can also be arranged. "We believe that there is a market for a total engineering and manufacturing service for the masterbatch and compounding industry," says commercial sales manager Stephen Jones. "By optimizing the process and screw design, we can help customers to run their production lines as efficiently as possible."
ware on-site, a new screw profile to match processing conditions can be worked out. The new screw profile is then rebuilt and the process operating conditions and parameters optimized. Advice on any process enhancements, such as multiple/split feeding, multiple venting or degassing, for example, is then arrived at. Operator
Akzo Nobel expands product offering Akzo Nobel has become worldwide distributor for the full range of speciality additive products of Italian company CIRS SpA, which includes anti-fouling agents and suspension agents. Used primarily in the PVC industry, these products are marketed by CIRS under the trade names Noxol ®, Ethapol ®, DCloud ®, Hypol ® and Active®. Akzo Nobel says that it will market these products alongside its range of organic peroxide initiators,
SAN. Last year the company constructed a new manufacturing facility in Texas in the USA and produced 3,500 tonnes of fine chemicals, generating a turnover of Lira 24 billion. The polymer chemicals business of Akzo Nobel is a leading worldwide supplier of organic peroxides, metal alkyls, Ziegler-Natta and other polymerization catalysts for thermoplastic polymers and thermoset plastics. The company operates 15 sites worldwide.
Trigonox®, Perkadox ® and Laurox®. Arend-Jan Kortenhorst, general manager of Akzo Nobel's polymer chemicals business, said: "The cooperation with CIRS fits with our strategy to expand further the product portfolio to offer a full range of products to customers throughout the world." CIRS SpA is based in Padova and is involved in the production of additives for plastics such as PVC, PS, ABS and
ifiers and processing aids. Morton is currently benefiting from the move away from lead-based stabilizers to tinbased alternatives. Its strength in biocide formulations complements Rohm and Haas' position in active biocide molecules.
Targor to build new compounding line Targor, the joint venture operation of BASF and Hoechst formed by the amalgamation of the companies' polypropylene (PP) divisions, has announced plans m build a new con> pounding plant at its Wilton site on Teesside in the UK. The plant will have two production lines with a total annual capacity of 32,000 tonnes, replacing six lines currently in use with an annual capacity of 24,000 tonnes. The investment is put at DM25 million and the plant is scheduled to come on stream in early 2000. Targor says that the new plant will strengthen its market position in Europe and the UK in particular. The plant has been designed with the UK market in mind, permitting cost-effective production of a wide range of different compounds. Targor also has production sites for PP specialities at Knapsack in Germany, Lillebonne in France, and Tarragona in Spain. The company recently shut down one of its plants at Knapsack near K61n making 90,000 tonnes per annum of standard PP by suspension polymerization. The Knapsack site still has a production capacity of 240,000 tonnes and the total annual PP capacity of Targor's seven European sites is 1.7 million tonnes.
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Rohm and Haas to purchase Morton International Rohm and Haas is to acquire German company Morton International for a cash and stock transaction worth US$4.9 billion, including the assumption ofUS$268 million of net debt. The deal will create a global speciality chemicals company with a
combined annual turnover of US$6.5 billion. J Lawrence Wilson, chairman and chief executive officer of Rohm and Haas said that the move was a transforming step for Rohm and Haas and the new company would be a leader in
high growth speciality chemicals. He added that the Morton businesses would complement Rohm and Haas' plastics additives and biocides products. This would add heat stabilizers and lubricants to Rohm and Haas' line of impact mod-
EIf Atochem plans new additives facility ElfAtochem has announced plans to constrtlct a new plastics additives plant at its Vlissingen site in the Netherlands. The facility will manufacture acrylic impact modifiers Durastrength * and processing aids Metablen ® P. Start-up is scheduled for the end of 1999. The company says that these additives will
be directed at the fast growing PVC window profile market and in engineering plastics. According to the company, the new plant will enable Elf Atochem and Metablen, a 50/50 joint venture between ElfAtochem and Mitsubishi Rayon, to raise the total capacity of the Vlissingen acrylic plastics additives plant to
30,000 tonnes per year. ElfAtochem operates plastics additives plants in Europe, USA, Japan and China, generating sales of US$300 million. The company says that it is committed to expanding and consolidating its international position in performance products.
New service optimizes extruder performance UK company Screwtech Engineering has launched a new service for optimizing extruder performance and production line efficient> The service entails Screwtech engineers visiting a plant to establish a twin screw extruder's process operating conditions and identifying the screw profile geometry. Using CAD soft-
training can also be arranged. "We believe that there is a market for a total engineering and manufacturing service for the masterbatch and compounding industry," says commercial sales manager Stephen Jones. "By optimizing the process and screw design, we can help customers to run their production lines as efficiently as possible."
ware on-site, a new screw profile to match processing conditions can be worked out. The new screw profile is then rebuilt and the process operating conditions and parameters optimized. Advice on any process enhancements, such as multiple/split feeding, multiple venting or degassing, for example, is then arrived at. Operator
Akzo Nobel expands product offering Akzo Nobel has become worldwide distributor for the full range of speciality additive products of Italian company CIRS SpA, which includes anti-fouling agents and suspension agents. Used primarily in the PVC industry, these products are marketed by CIRS under the trade names Noxol ®, Ethapol ®, DCloud ®, Hypol ® and Active®. Akzo Nobel says that it will market these products alongside its range of organic peroxide initiators,
SAN. Last year the company constructed a new manufacturing facility in Texas in the USA and produced 3,500 tonnes of fine chemicals, generating a turnover of Lira 24 billion. The polymer chemicals business of Akzo Nobel is a leading worldwide supplier of organic peroxides, metal alkyls, Ziegler-Natta and other polymerization catalysts for thermoplastic polymers and thermoset plastics. The company operates 15 sites worldwide.
Trigonox®, Perkadox ® and Laurox®. Arend-Jan Kortenhorst, general manager of Akzo Nobel's polymer chemicals business, said: "The cooperation with CIRS fits with our strategy to expand further the product portfolio to offer a full range of products to customers throughout the world." CIRS SpA is based in Padova and is involved in the production of additives for plastics such as PVC, PS, ABS and
ifiers and processing aids. Morton is currently benefiting from the move away from lead-based stabilizers to tinbased alternatives. Its strength in biocide formulations complements Rohm and Haas' position in active biocide molecules.
Targor to build new compounding line Targor, the joint venture operation of BASF and Hoechst formed by the amalgamation of the companies' polypropylene (PP) divisions, has announced plans m build a new con> pounding plant at its Wilton site on Teesside in the UK. The plant will have two production lines with a total annual capacity of 32,000 tonnes, replacing six lines currently in use with an annual capacity of 24,000 tonnes. The investment is put at DM25 million and the plant is scheduled to come on stream in early 2000. Targor says that the new plant will strengthen its market position in Europe and the UK in particular. The plant has been designed with the UK market in mind, permitting cost-effective production of a wide range of different compounds. Targor also has production sites for PP specialities at Knapsack in Germany, Lillebonne in France, and Tarragona in Spain. The company recently shut down one of its plants at Knapsack near K61n making 90,000 tonnes per annum of standard PP by suspension polymerization. The Knapsack site still has a production capacity of 240,000 tonnes and the total annual PP capacity of Targor's seven European sites is 1.7 million tonnes.
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