18 December 2013
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Synthos S.A.,
has announced a stragtegic sales alliance with
Ohio based Harwick Standard Distribution Corporation
to distribute Synthos's
Styrene-Butadiene Rubber (SBR) and
Butadiene Rubber (BR) products
in the United States.
About Synthos
- Synthos is the largest European producer of SBR,
with capacity of 280,000 tons per year of
emulsion-based styrene butadiene rubber (E-SBR)
with plants in Poland and the Czech Republic.
- Synthos also has an 80,000 tons
Neodymium-catalysed butadiene rubber (NdBR) plant
in the Czech Republic, As well as
- A Nitrile Butadiene Rubber (NBR) and
High Styrene Rubber (HSR) manufacturing facility
in Poland.
- The company will open
its first Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S-SBR) plant,
which will add an additional 90,000 tons per year of capacity.
The facility is currently being built in
Poland near Krakow and
will be fully oprational in 2015.
- Synthos is backward integrated to monomer raw materials,
as well as being Europe's
* largest manufacturer of emulsion-based rubbers and
* the fourth largest manufacturer of polystyrene
for foam applications.
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