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Solvay sells PVDF business to Dyneon. (In Brief).


Solvay America Inc., Houston, has agreed to sell its Solvay Fluoropolymers business to Dyneon LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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, Minn. Solvay supplies So1ef PVDF PVDF polyvinylidene difluoride  resins made at a new plant in Decatur, Ala.

Solvay is selling the business to satisfy U.S. and European antitrust authorities, which required the divestiture The breakup of AT&T. By federal court order, AT&T divested itself on January 1, 1984 of its 23 operating companies, which became known as the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs).  as a condition of accepting the acquisition earlier this year of Ausimont S.p.A. in Italy by Solvay America's parent, Solvay S.A. of Belgium.

Ausimont (U.S. office in Thorofare, N.J.) produces Hylar PVDF and other fluoropolymers. Dyneon also makes a range of fluoropolymers, but not PVDF.
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Title Annotation:Solvay America Inc. divests Solva Fluoropolymers
Publication:Plastics Technology
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 1, 2002
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