Manufacturing Industry
Huntsman rethinks relocating resin production.(Suppliers)(Brief Article)
Plastics News, February, 2006 by Esposito, Frank
Byline: Frank Esposito Officials at Huntsman Corp. have changed their minds about moving some of the firm's epoxy resin and polyurethane board production from Michigan to California. Salt Lake City-based Huntsman had planned to move production from an East Lansing, Mich., plant - which Huntsman acquired when it bought Vantico Inc.
in mid-2003 - to a similar plant in Los Angeles. But a review of the proposal led the firm to keep the Michigan plant, and its 50 jobs, in place. "Things are always changing,'' Huntsman spokesman Don Olsen said in a phone interview. "We began looking at the move as soon as we acquired the plant. But in the time it took to make the decision, it made more sense to leave the plant in East Lansing.'' Most of the products made at...
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