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Chemtura & Ferro boost epoxy plasticizer capacity.


Increases in capacity for epoxy plasticizers plasticizers

mostly triaryl phosphates, such as tricresyl, triphenyl phosphates, which are poisonous. See also triorthocresyl phosphate.
 used in PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 are under way at Chemtura Corp., Middlebury, Conn., and Ferro Corp.'s Organic Specialties Group, Independence, Ohio Independence is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7,109. Geography
Independence is located at GR1.
. Their plans were announced soon after Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., said it would cease production and marketing of epoxidized soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been  and linseed oils after Sept. 6, 2006. Chemtura aims for a 15% increase in epoxidized soybean oil capacity at Taft, La., next month. Ferro plans a 20% boost in epoxidized soybean oil production at Walton Hills, Ohio, by the end of the year.
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Title Annotation:Your Business: In Brief
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Dec 1, 2006
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