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Article: PILOT-PLANT BUILDERS, SUPPLIERS FIND METALLOCENES PROFITABLE.
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- June 21, 1999
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HOUSTON -- After seeing displays from a trio of pilot-plant builders and suppliers at a recent industry conference, a resin executive wryly said, ``It's good to see someone's making money from metallocenes.''
While resin makers have struggled to regain the investments they've made in producing metallocene polyethylene and polypropylene, companies like Zeton Inc., Xytel Corp. and PDC Machines Inc. have reaped the benefits from the pilot plants resin makers operate to test materials before moving into full commercial scale.
Zeton, a Burlington, Ontario, firm that split from Xytel in 1984, has built five to 10 pilot plants in the past two years for such ...