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Antimony-based flame retardants added to PolymerAdditives.com offering
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Antimony-based flame retardants added to PolymerAdditives.com offering Albemarle Corporation and Laurel Industries, a whollyowned subsidiary of Occidental Chemical Corporation, have reached a definitive agreement allowing Albemarle to distribute Laurel's antimony-based flame retardants through PolymerAdditives.com, L.L.C. Albemarle says that PolymerAdditives.com will offer SAYTEX® FS and TG flame retardants produced by Laurel as Fireshield® and Thermoguard® antimony oxides, respectively.
"The decision by Albemarle to make the widely used synergist, antimony oxide, available through PolymerAdditives. com lets our customers take even greater advantage of the one-stop shop capability, broad logistics and distribution network, and e-commerce platform," says Scan McKeon, president of PolymerAdditives. com.
"We are pleased with this agreement and see it as a natural fit between two lead-
ing providers of flame retardant technology," adds Gery Maneth, plastic additives business manager for Laurel. "We believe Albemarle and PolymerAdditives.com will help us reach even more customers." Laurel Industries manufactures speciality and high-purity grades of antimony oxides for flame retardant markets and polyester (PET) polymerization catalyst applications.
PolymerAdditives.com is an e-business joint venture owned equally by Albemarle Corporation, Cytec Industries Inc. and GE Specialty Chemicals, Inc. The venture is designed to market a broad array of polymer additives to customers worldwide. PolymerAdditives.com currently offers almost 200 products. Contact: PolyrnerAddidves. corn Tel: +I 704 655 204i
service point in Shanghai. A
that business can be conducted in local currency, if required.
Be German compounding machinery manufacturer Berstorff GmbH is opening whollyowned sales and service points in Asia. Following the establishment of a sales and service office in Beijing, China, at the end of ~ t year, a sales office was recently opened in Singapore.
=It is important for us to be in the Asian market structure, becaus{
service is offered to customers from the Wi Goa Qiao Free e Zone. The company that the fact that it is situated in a FreeTrade Zone offers the further advantage
account of the increasing sigefificance of this region for our com-
Contact:
Bersto~f GmbH Tel: +49 511 5702 3 9 7 Fax: +49 511 5702 416 E-mail: rehme~o@bersto~.de
Velsicol makes changes to plasticizer production
Holland Co/ours strikes blowing agent deal
Velsicol Chemical Corporation is concentrating North American production of BenzoflexCR~plasticizers at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Chestertown, Maryland plants in the USA. The company says that this will mean the idling of one unit located in Bayport, Texas. According to Velsicol, the capacity increases at the
Holland Colours, the manufacturer of colorants, and ZebraChem, a German company that specializes in blowing agents for the PVC pipe industry, have signed a co-operation and distribution agreement. Under the agreement, Holland Colours will exclusively distribute Zebra-Chem's blowing agents under the trade name Holocell, in all countries out-
Tennessee and Maryland plants provide greater flexibility for servicing its customers. The company also operates manufacturing facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Manchester, UK; and KohtlaJ~irve, Estonia. Contact:
Velsicol Chemical Corporation Tel." +i 847 298 9000
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side Europe. Holland Colours says that for the first 12 months of the co-operation the focus will be on North, Central and South America through its existing distribution network. The company adds that it will offer the Holocell blowing agent next to its existing range of colorants for PVC pipe applications, such as Holobatch.
INDUSTRY
New:
Antimony-based flame retardants added to PolymerAdditives.com offering Albemarle Corporation and Laurel Industries, a whollyowned subsidiary of Occidental Chemical Corporation, have reached a definitive agreement allowing Albemarle to distribute Laurel's antimony-based flame retardants through PolymerAdditives.com, L.L.C. Albemarle says that PolymerAdditives.com will offer SAYTEX® FS and TG flame retardants produced by Laurel as Fireshield® and Thermoguard® antimony oxides, respectively.
"The decision by Albemarle to make the widely used synergist, antimony oxide, available through PolymerAdditives. com lets our customers take even greater advantage of the one-stop shop capability, broad logistics and distribution network, and e-commerce platform," says Scan McKeon, president of PolymerAdditives. com.
"We are pleased with this agreement and see it as a natural fit between two lead-
ing providers of flame retardant technology," adds Gery Maneth, plastic additives business manager for Laurel. "We believe Albemarle and PolymerAdditives.com will help us reach even more customers." Laurel Industries manufactures speciality and high-purity grades of antimony oxides for flame retardant markets and polyester (PET) polymerization catalyst applications.
PolymerAdditives.com is an e-business joint venture owned equally by Albemarle Corporation, Cytec Industries Inc. and GE Specialty Chemicals, Inc. The venture is designed to market a broad array of polymer additives to customers worldwide. PolymerAdditives.com currently offers almost 200 products. Contact: PolyrnerAddidves. corn Tel: +I 704 655 204i
service point in Shanghai. A
that business can be conducted in local currency, if required.
Be German compounding machinery manufacturer Berstorff GmbH is opening whollyowned sales and service points in Asia. Following the establishment of a sales and service office in Beijing, China, at the end of ~ t year, a sales office was recently opened in Singapore.
=It is important for us to be in the Asian market structure, becaus{
service is offered to customers from the Wi Goa Qiao Free e Zone. The company that the fact that it is situated in a FreeTrade Zone offers the further advantage
account of the increasing sigefificance of this region for our com-
Contact:
Bersto~f GmbH Tel: +49 511 5702 3 9 7 Fax: +49 511 5702 416 E-mail: rehme~o@bersto~.de
Velsicol makes changes to plasticizer production
Holland Co/ours strikes blowing agent deal
Velsicol Chemical Corporation is concentrating North American production of BenzoflexCR~plasticizers at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Chestertown, Maryland plants in the USA. The company says that this will mean the idling of one unit located in Bayport, Texas. According to Velsicol, the capacity increases at the
Holland Colours, the manufacturer of colorants, and ZebraChem, a German company that specializes in blowing agents for the PVC pipe industry, have signed a co-operation and distribution agreement. Under the agreement, Holland Colours will exclusively distribute Zebra-Chem's blowing agents under the trade name Holocell, in all countries out-
Tennessee and Maryland plants provide greater flexibility for servicing its customers. The company also operates manufacturing facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Manchester, UK; and KohtlaJ~irve, Estonia. Contact:
Velsicol Chemical Corporation Tel." +i 847 298 9000
Plastics Additives & Compounding October 2001
6
side Europe. Holland Colours says that for the first 12 months of the co-operation the focus will be on North, Central and South America through its existing distribution network. The company adds that it will offer the Holocell blowing agent next to its existing range of colorants for PVC pipe applications, such as Holobatch.