Finnish Chem Buys Huron Tech.(Finnish Chemicals Oy, Huron Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, December, 2000

FINNISH CHEMICALS Oy, Aetsa, Finland, is buying 100 percent of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Huron Tech Corporation. Both companies arc key producers of chemicals for the pulp and paper industry in Europe and North America. Huron Tech manufactures sodium chlorate at facilities in Augusta, Ga., and Eastover, S.C. Equipment fabrication, research and development, and administration are based in Delco, N.C.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The pulp and paper chemicals business will operate under the Finnchem umbrella. Finnish Chemicals line chemicals unit, Delicato Chemical, will continue to operate as a separate entity.