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Eastman cancels spin-off of plastics. (In Brief).


Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, Tenn., last month canceled its year-old plan to spin off its specialty chemicals and plastics business into a separate company. Instead, Eastman is keeping the new divisional structure launched this January. This structure involves the creation of Voridian Co. as a new operating division that produces PET, polyethylene, and acetate fibers. Voridian also offers EMAC and EBAC EBAC East Bay Agency for Children
EBAC European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology
EBAC Employee Benefits Advisory Committee
EBAC Ethylene Butyl Acrylate
EBAC Experience Based Admission Control
EBAC Engine Brake Assist Control
 ethylene ethylene (ĕth`əlēn') or ethene (ĕth`ēn), H2C=CH2, a gaseous unsaturated hydrocarbon. It is the simplest alkene.  copolymers, but not Eastman's Eastar PETG PETG Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol
PETG Performance Evaluation Task Group
 or DuraStar PET for injection molding injection molding
n.
A manufacturing process for forming objects, as of plastic or metal, by heating the molding material to a fluid state and injecting it into a mold.
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Date:Mar 1, 2002
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