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- FPC: Troubled plant Online.(Formosa Plastics Corp.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Formosa Plastics Corp. FPC has announced that its 70,000-ton-per-year methyl methacrylate MMA plant at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, will be operational in the third quarter of 2001. The plant was originally expected to be active in the third quarter of 2000, but the company says the delay has...
- Research articles 2001-05-21
- Formosa to buy PVC plant from BCP for $35 million. (News).(Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A. to acquire polyvinyl chloride plant from Borden Chemicals and Plastics Operating L.P.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- FORMOSA PLASTICS Corp. USA has entered into an agreement to buy the Illiopolis, I11.-based polyvinyl chloride PVC operations of Borden Chemicals and Plastics Operating LP BCP for roughly $35 million, subject to adjustments for working capital and other items. The transaction also requires the approval of...
- Research articles 2002-03-18
- Formosa buys Borden's PVC site.(Borden Chemicals and Plastics L.P. sells PVC plant to Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Borden Chemicals and Plastics LP has completed the sale of its Illiopolis, Ill., PVC plant to Formosa Plastics Corp. USA for about $35 million. The sale was approved March 27 by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. The court also...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Berry Plastics investigates financial options package.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- To help it stay on its growth curve, Berry Plastics Corp. is exploring financial alternatives that could include selling the company. The consumer-packaging company has retained investment banking firms J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse First Boston to help Berry evaluate its financial...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- HIGH FIBER; THE BIGGEST PRODUCERS OF SYNTHETIC FIBERS IN THE WORLD, RANKED ACCORDING TO THEIR ANNUAL CAPACITY IN TONS OF ACRYLIC, NYLON, POLYESTER AND SPANDEX. (SORRY, OLEFIN AND ARAMID NOT INCLUDED.).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 1) E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Wilmington, Del. Tons produced per year: 1,210,000 Despite interests in agricultural chemicals, 200-year-old DuPont is still the top producer of synthetic fibers under a single name, although you can expect that to change...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- Soo Plastics looks for buyer after Ch. 11 filing.(News)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Byline: Terry Kosdrosky Soo Plastics Inc., an auto supplier owned by Ann Arbor attorney Barbara Hooberman, has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition and is courting buyers. The company produces injection-molded plastic parts for the automotive industry. Its largest customer, General...
- Research articles 2002-09-23
- WebMD nixes Porex spinoff.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Citing poor market conditions, medical software firm WebMD Corp. has decided not to spin off Porex Holdings Inc., its plastics processing unit. WebMD announced July 17 that, for now at least, it would keep Fairburn, Ga. -based Porex inside the com Citing poor...
- Research articles 2002-07-22
- Ferro expansion adds capacity around the globe.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Ferro Corp., a Cleveland-based company that ranks as one of the largest polypropylene compounders in the United States, is adding capacity in Evansville, Ind., and opening a plant in Indonesia to continue the growth of its plastics unit. With $255 Ferro Corp., a...
- Research articles 2000-05-15
- ASK Plastics nabs molder Jamison.(acquisition of Jamison Plastic Corp. solidifies distribution and molding capabilities)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- ASK Plastics Inc. strengthened its distribution and molding capabilities by acquiring custom injection molder Jamison Plastic Corp. ASK will make the Jamison operation, renamed ASK Lehigh Valley, its main assembly and supply-chain management facility, ASK said in a news release. The Allentown, Pa., operation...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- Collins & Aikman plans to make noise in acoustics.(possible plastics acquisitions to help it improve its overall strength in automotive acoustics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- With a new financial partner lined up, a reinvigorated Collins & Aikman Corp. is looking at some possible plastics acquisitions to help it improve its overall strength in automotive acoustics. Heartland Industrial Partners L.P. has spent $260 million for a 60 percent stake in...
- Research articles 2001-02-12
- Catching Up in Taiwan.(petrochemical industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Competitors Chase Formosa Plastics THE PETROCHEMICAL industry in Taiwan is awaiting three significant events in 2001. The government is due to decide the fate of Tuntex's stalled No. 7 naphtha cracker project and announce a timetable for Chinese Petroleum Corp.'s CPC privatization. Thirdly,...
- Research articles 2001-02-07
- background.(Collins and Aikman Corp. and Textron Automotive Trim services)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Collins & Aikman Headquarters: Troy, Mich. Chairman and CEO: Thomas Evans Employees: 15,000 Plastics operation employees: 5,800 Company description: Collins & Aikman Corp. manufactures floor and acoustic systems and supplies automotive fabric, interior trim...
- Research articles 2001-08-13
- Durez Corp. (Plastics & Coatings in Brief).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- DUREZ CORP. is raising its prices for all grades of phenolic resins, effective July 15. Prices will increase by 7c. per pound for liquid resin and methylon coating resin. They will go up 10c. per pound for powder resin and flake resin, and 12c. per pound for...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Failure of Consource nets lawsuit.(Consource Plastic Recycling Corp.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- A defunct Tampa, Fla., financial service firm has been charged with bilking investors out of $1.7 million, which it allegedly used to make loans to a plastics recycling company. A lawsuit filed Sept. 4 by the Securities and Exchange Commission in U.S. District Court...
- Research articles 2001-09-10
- Toray Boosts Resin In Malaysia.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. of Japan is increasing the production of ABS resin at its facility in Malaysia by 30 percent, or 50,000 additional tons per year. The company plans to invest $16.1 million to upgrade the Toray Plastics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd plant, with operations set to ...
- Research articles 2001-07-16
- NEWS CLIPS.(plastic industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Sealaska soliciting offers for TriQuest JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sealaska Corp. has retained investment banker Bainbridge Inc. to solicit offers for custom injection molder TriQuest Precision Plastics. Bainbridge's San Diego office began circulating prospectuses in October. Sealaska of Juneau acquired 90 percent...
- Research articles 2000-12-04
- Sabic seeking global ventures.(Saudi Arabian Basic Industries; Linde AG; Jubail United Petrochemical Co. Petrokemya)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - Deep-pocketed petrochemical and polyolefins giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp. confirmed at the K show that it is in talks related to plastics acquisitions and joint ventures on multiple continents with various parties, including Italy's EniChem SpA and the Netherlands' DSM NV. ...
- Research articles 2001-11-12
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