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Article: DuPont streamlines distribution.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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Byline: Frank Esposito
Engineering resins leader DuPont Co. has selected PolyOne Corp. as its primary resin distributor in North America.
Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont had worked with both PolyOne and Ashland Distribution for several years, but now "feels the need to be more strongly aligned with a single partner, DuPont engineering polymers sales director James Hay said in an Aug. 5 conference call.
As a result, DuPont will end its supply agreement with Dublin, Ohio-based Ashland in early November.
"We're trying to position ourselves for growth coming out of the economic downturn, Hays added. "We needed to simplify our channels to ...