Bayer Polymers has become Bayer MaterialScience
Tom Stundza -- Purchasing, 8/17/2004 2:00:00 AM
Bayer MaterialScience is the new name for the Pittsburgh-based producer of polyurethanes, polycarbonates, thermoplastic polyurethanes and coatings raw materials that used to be Bayer Polymers. The name change is part of a global Bayer Group reorganization where businesses now are grouped as Bayer MaterialScience, Bayer HealthCare and Bayer CropScience.
Bayer MaterialScience also is the world's largest producer of aromatic isocyanates and polyether polyols, the chemical raw materials that produce polyurethane foams. The company also is a global leader in polycarbonate plastic resin used to produce CDs and DVDs, impact resistant sheet for construction and displays and in water bottles.
H.C. Starck and Wolff Walsrode, two separate specialty companies formerly with Bayer Chemicals, now fall under the Bayer MaterialScience banner. H.C. Starck produces metal and ceramic powders, nonferrous metals for sophisticated electronic applications and intermediate chemicals for advanced ceramics. Wolff Walsrode specializes in cellulose. Bayer Chemicals has been combined with about one-third of Bayer's polymers businesses to form a new company called Lanxess Corp., which makes rubber products and chemicals, styrenics and semicrystalline products.
"Bayer MaterialScience holds leadership positions in key markets and has world-class plants and technologies," says Gregory S. Babe, president and chief executive officer. The company has 10 plants in Baytown and Channelview, Texas; Berlin, Conn.; Columbus, Ga., Hebron, Ohio; South Deerfield and Sheffield, Mass.; Newton, Mass. (H.C. Starck); New Martinsville and South Charleston, W.Va. and Santa Clara, Mexico.
The firm's products are sold into such markets as automotive, comfort, engineering thermoplastics, insulation, coatings, adhesives and sealants to make such items as weatherable paints, coatings, sealants and adhesives used in automobile interiors and exteriors, construction, furniture, packaging, shoes and sports equipment. "There are ample opportunities for growth from new applications, including automotive window glazing, intelligent materials like self-healing paints, luminescent films and self-cleaning plastics," Babe says.
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