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Article: Huntsman unit using Pa. facility.
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- January 29, 2001
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A Huntsman Corp. unit uses BethIntermodal Inc.'s Bethlehem, Pa., facility to help distribute plastic pellets in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and portions of the Midwest. The operation replaces a terminal in Woodbury, N.J., that Huntsman operated until mid-2000. Huntsman closed its Woodbury polypropylene plant in April 1999 but temporarily continued to operate the terminal. Finally, "we were selling the property and had to find another location," said Tom Buchholz, a Huntsman purchasing manager for rail and terminal logistics in Houston. The transition allowed Huntsman to continue supplying regional customers of the former Woodbury plant, Buchholz said in a telephone ...