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Published Date: July 18, 1997
Company Name: Sterling Chemicals Inc.
Address: 1200 Smith Street, Suite 1900
Houston, Texas 77002-4312
Main Telephone
Number: 713/650-3700
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): N/A
Chief Executive
Officer: Robert W. Roten
Chief Financial
Officer: Jim P. Wise
Investor Relations
Contact: Michael D. Noonan
Business number: 713/654-9506
e-mail address: mnoonan@sterlingchemicals.com
Public Relations
Contact: Michael D. Noonan
Business number: 713/654-9506
e-mail address: mnoonan@sterlingchemicals.com
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: STXX
Industry: CHEMICALS
Market Makers:
Company description: Sterling Chemicals Holdings, Inc. is a holding company that, through its operating subsidiaries, manufactures petrochemicals, acrylic fibers, pulp chemicals and provides large-scale chlorine dioxide chlorine dioxide, n an oxidizing agent used in oral care to decrease amounts of volatile sulfur compounds that may cause halitosis. generators to the pulp and paper industry The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American (United States, Canada), northern European (Finland, Sweden) and East Asian countries (such as Japan). Australasia and Latin America also have significant pulp and paper industries. . The Company's petrochemical business manufactures styrene sty·rene n. A colorless oily liquid from which polystyrenes, plastics, and synthetic rubber are produced. Also called vinylbenzene. , acrylonitrile acrylonitrile /ac·ry·lo·ni·trile/ (ak?ri-lo-ni´tril) a colorless halogenated hydrocarbon used in the making of plastics and as a pesticide; its vapors are irritant to the respiratory tract and eyes, may cause systemic poisoning, and are , acetic acid, plasticizers plasticizers mostly triaryl phosphates, such as tricresyl, triphenyl phosphates, which are poisonous. See also triorthocresyl phosphate. , methanol, sodium cyanide, and tertiary butylamine at the Company's Texas City, Texas facility. Sterling's acrylic fibers business manufacturers a wide variety of textile and technical fibers for use in the textiles and friction materials industry at its plant near Pensacola, Florida. The Company's pulp chemical business produces sodium chlorate, caustic soda, chlorine, calcium hypochlorite and hydrochloric acid at its pulp chemical plants in five Canadian locations and one U.S. site. The Company's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas. Sterling's common stock is listed on the OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). Electronic Bulletin Board under the symbol STXX STXX Struts for Transforming Xml with Xsl . CONTACT: Sterling Chemicals Inc., Houston |
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