DuPont Buys Borealis' Borflex Ethylene Acrylates.DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, Wilmington, Del., is diversifying its specialty ethylene ethylene (ĕth`əlēn') or ethene (ĕth`ēn), H2C=CH2, a gaseous unsaturated hydrocarbon. It is the simplest alkene. copolymers line by acquiring the Borflex ethylene acrylate Noun 1. acrylate - a salt or ester of propenoic acid propenoate salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) copolymer copolymer: see polymer. business of Borealis in Denmark. The two firms are forming a 50/50 joint venture to produce copolymers in Antwerp, Belgium. Borealis retains rights to use the copolymers in wire and cable compounds. These acrylates are new for DuPont, which plans to offer sample quantities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. as early as the first quarter of 2001. These soft, flexible resins are used for pliable liding of yogurt cups, industrial and medical tubing, and adhesives. |
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