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Article: Ferro Offers High-Purity Grade of Naphthalene Dicarboxylic Acid to Global Industry.
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- Pharma Business Week
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Ferro Corporation's (NYSE: FOE) Organic Specialties Group announced it has acquired full manufacturing and commercial rights for the production of high purity 2,6 naphthalene dicarboxylic acid (HNDA) from 2,6 naphthalene dicarboxylate (NDC). Ferro also acquired the existing production facility for HNDA, which is located at the Company's Fine Chemicals site in Zachary, LA, U.S.A. The rights and facility were acquired from BP Amoco Chemical Company, a subsidiary of BP p.l.c (see also Ferro Corporation).
HNDA is Ferro's 99.8% purity grade of 2,6 naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, which is primarily used to form specialty naphthalate-based polymers, including liquid ...