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    Kraton
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    Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. (NYSE: KRA) ("KPPI" and, together with its subsidiaries including the Company and Arizona, "Kraton") is a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers, specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from pine wood pulping co-products. Kraton's polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving, roofing and footwear products. As the largest global provider in the pine chemicals industry, the company's pine-based specialty products are sold into adhesive, road and construction and tire markets, and it produces and sells a broad range of chemical intermediates into markets that include fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, coatings, metalworking fluids and lubricants, inks, flavors and fragrances and mining. Kraton offers its products to a diverse customer base in over 60 countries worldwide. Kraton, the Kraton logo and design, and the "Giving Innovators their Edge" tagline are all trademarks of Kraton Polymers LLC. Our Mission Create exceptional value by Giving Innovators Their Edge® better than all others in the industry we lead. Our Vision Guided by our Core Values, we will be an admired Fortune 500 specialty chemical company with consistent earnings per share growth, a sustaining Vitality Index, industry-leading margins, delivering returns above our cost of capital.
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    Norplex-Micarta
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    Norplex-Micarta is a leading manufacturer of high performance thermoset composite materials based on impregnation and lamination technology. Norplex-Micarta manufactures the highest quality specialty sheet products, prepregs, rods, molded shapes, and tubes to meet demanding applications for OEMs and fabricators around the world.


    The global headquarters of Norplex-Micarta is located in Postville, Iowa, USA. To support the demand for thermoset composite materials in Asia, the Company also operates a facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu, P.R. China.


    Norplex-Micarta produces sheets, tubes, rods, and other specialty molded shapes for thousands of different applications in dozens of different industries. 


    The Postville, Iowa facility is equipped with a variety of impregnation and downstream equipment to serve the varied needs of the industrial market. Prepreg can be produced on either horizontal or vertical machines as required to match the requirements of the fabrication process. Norplex-Micarta processes sheets and stock shapes internally. 


    Sheets are regularly produced at 6 inches (150 mm) thick, and several materials can be produced as a monolithic sheet as thick as 12 inches (300 mm). Tubes are produced on IDs ranging from 0.094 inches (2.3 mm) to 48 inches (1.2 meters) on specially built mandrels. These materials are generally further processed by firms that specialize in the machining, punching, or other stock removal fabrication process.

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    "Wells Plastics is the largest independent specialist additive masterbatch manufacturer within the UK. With an experienced team of technical, sales and production staff, extensive manufacturing facilities based in the heart of the United Kingdom, Wells Plastics offers a wide range of products and services to the plastics processing industry both within the UK and internationally. By celebrating 37 years of research, development and manufacture of additive masterbatches and compounds in Stone, Staffordshire, Wells Plastics has created an enviable degree of expertise in a wide range of chemistries and processes, providing additive masterbatches, compounds, bespoke formulations and contract work for some of the most demanding technical applications and global customers. In May 2018 Wells Plastics successfully completed an ambitious expansion of its operations in Stone, Staffs, including the installation of two new state of the art twin screw compounding lines creating extra capacity, functionality and new job opportunities. This significant expansion is in response to the continued growth and demand for Wells Plastics products and services both locally and internationally. Wells Plastics is proud to supply the global polymer processing marketplace with high quality products, services and technical support. Wells Plastics keeps at the forefront of global plastics industry requirements through active membership of a number of internationally recognized industry and standard bodies such as ASTM, BSi, OBPF, BPF, as well as providing expert advice to support and guide customers, NGOs and national bodies in the correct selection and use of plastic products."

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