Eastman building big PET plant.Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport Kingsport, city (1990 pop. 36,365), Hawkins and Sullivan counties, NE Tenn., on the Holston River near the Va. line; inc. 1917. Industries include one of the largest printing and bookbinding plants in the United States. , Tenn., recently broke ground on a new 770-million-lb/yr PET packaging resin resin, any of a class of amorphous solids or semisolids. Resins are found in nature and are chiefly of vegetable origin. They are typically light yellow to dark brown in color; tasteless; odorless or faintly aromatic; translucent or transparent; brittle, fracturing plant for its Voridian subsidiary in Columbia Columbia, cities, United States Columbia (kəlŭm`bēə). 1 City (1990 pop. 75,883), Howard co., central Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. , S.C. The plant will use Eastman's new IntegRex technology that is said to reduce the cost of manufacturing PET. The plant is expected on line in the fourth quarter of 2006. |
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