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COMPANIES COMPANIES Huntsman agrees to be acquired by Hexion for $28.00 per share Huntsman Corporation has terminated its merger agreement with Basell AF It . has agreed to a definitive merger agreement with Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., pursuant to which Hexion will acquire Huntsman in a transaction with a total value of approximately $10.6 billion.The termination of the Basell agreement (with a lower proposal) implies the payment of the $200 million break-up fee, shared equally by Hexion and Huntsman. www.huntsman.com Owens Corning plans to sell composite manufacturing plants in Belgium and Norway Owens Corning announced the planned sale of two glass fibre reinforcement manufacturing facilities in Belgium and Norway. The sale is intended to address regulatory concerns associated with the proposed formation of a joint venture between Saint-Gobain’s and Owens Corning’s Reinforcements businesses. www.owenscorning.com In Brief Orders for 216 wind turbines Vestas has received orders for 34 units of its 2.0 MW wind turbine (18 in Italy and 16 in Germany) and for 182 units of its 1.65 MW model in the USA. www.vestas.com Amitech closes the biggest FRP pipe supply contract in Brazilian history Specializing in the manufacture of piping for basic sanitation and irrigation systems, Amitech – a local branch of the Saudi Arabian group Amiantit – signed the biggest contract for the supply of fibreglass reinforced polyester (FRP) pipes in Brazilian history. The company won the international public tender issued by the Secretary for Water Resources of the State of Ceará. Over the next twelve months, Amitech will supply around 19 km of water piping to the State. After gaining approval in all the technical issues, Amitech presented a quote of US$ 12 million, compared to a US$ 18 million quote from a steel pipe manufacturer and more than US$ 25 million from a cast iron pipe manufacturer. For the Integration Channel, the pipe diameter specified in the tender was 1,200-1,500 mm, with the capacity to withstand a pressure of up to 12 bar. www.amitech.com.br Hexcel announces sale of product lines Hexcel Corporation recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of the remaining assets of its U.S. Electronics, Ballistics & General Industrial reinforcement product lines to JPS Industries Inc. The agreement provides for an initial cash purchase price of $62.5 million plus up to $12.5 million of additional payments dependent upon future sales of the Ballistics product line. www.hexcel.com Ashland increases China investment to build new plant and technical center A new unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) plant, to be built in northern China, represents an estimated initial $35 million investment. Current plans call for the plant to be operational in 2009. This project marks the second resin production facility for Ashland in China, and it will be the fifth manu-facturing site for Ashland China. Existing UPR production plant in Changzhou, constructed in 2005, is currently being expanded to triple its production capacity. The other expansion project announced is a $43 million technology and commercial center, which will be located in Shanghai. The facility, expected to be completed in 2008, will also house management and business services that support Ashland’s operations throughout China. With more than 400 employees in China, Ashland currently has offices in Shanghai and Beijing, and manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Changzhou, Kunshan and Nanjing. www.ashland.com Saint-Gobain ready to divest its Reinforcements and Composites business to Owens Corning Discussions regarding the plan to merge the Reinforcements and Composites activities of Saint-Gobain (part of the entity Vetrotex) with the Reinforcements business of Owens Corning are now focusing on a sale project of Saint-Gobain’s businesses to Owens Corning, rather than on the creation of a jointly-owned company. Saint-Gobain has retained its US reinforcement fibre activities, which will be sold independently of the entities divested to Owens Corning. As initially planned, Saint-Gobain’s Textile Solutions business, serving mainly construction markets, will remain part of the Group’s HighPerformance Materials sector. www.saint-gobain.com New wind blade plant The opening of a new facility is planned in Arkansas. The plant is scheduled to begin operations in 2008 and will employ over 1,000 people within five years. www.lmglasfiber.com JEC Composites Magazine / No35 september 2007
http://www.vestas.com http://www.owenscorning.com http://www.huntsman.com http://www.hexcel.com http://www.amitech.com.br http://www.lmglasfiber.com http://www.saint-gobain.com http://www.ashland.com

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NEWS WORLDWIDE
- Companies
- Agenda of events
- 2008 JEC Singapore
BUSINESS
- Market survey
- Niche markets
- Trends
- Human capital
FEATURE - MARINE
- Market
- Raw Materials
- Process
- Application
USERS’ PLATFORM
- Composites in the world
- Successful partners
- Applications
KNOW-HOW
- Warp knitting technology
- Testing
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