

In 1998 to expand and enhance its manufacturing facilities. Same time, to ensure that its output meets increasingly strict Good Products, especially IGIV (immune globulin intravenous), and, at the Will use the $25 million to increase its capacity to make plasma Los Angeles-headquartered ALPHA THERAPEUTIC CORP. indirectly boosted the capital of Green Cross' Supplier of blood products in Japan, YOSHITOMI PHARMACEUTICAL Nine months after it took over GREEN CROSS CORP., once the major Worldwide outside of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. That Eastalite foam technology incorporates Sekisui Plastics' patentsĪnd licenses, Eastman Chemical has the right to market the product Microwave or a conventional oven and then to the table. Withstand temperatures from minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit to 400ĭegrees Fahrenheit, allowing containers to go from the freezer to a This product results in food containers that can Initially is using the know-how in its Eastalite foam technology forįood packaging. The big Kingsport, Tennessee-headquartered plastics manufacturer Largest manufacturer of foamed plastics, licensed a patented processįor making PET (polyethylene terephthalate) foam to EASTMAN CHEMICALĬO. Under a 10-year agreement, SEKISUI PLASTICS CO., LTD., Japan's Million worth of polypropylene film a year. Produces coating resins with a work force of 48 people.

Into the holding company as well were DIANAL AMERICA, INC. of Sacramento, California, a 96-person maker The largest is NEWPORT ADHESIVES ANDĬOMPOSITES, INC., an Irvine, California maker of adhesives andĬomposites with yearly sales of $34 million and 92 employees. Manhattan-based sales subsidiary, MITSUBISHI RAYON AMERICA INC., plusįour manufacturing operations. Order to reduce corporate taxes and to promote administrativeĮfficiency. have been placed under the umbrella of a new holding company in The five American companies wholly owned by MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., The new company will have annual revenues of Of industrial gases, with 56 distribution centers in the southern Tri-Gas, purchased in the spring of 1995, is a leading manufacturer Nippon Sanso acquired Matheson inġ983 and later bought other suppliers that were folded into Matheson. Its key products, provided from facilitiesĪcross the country, are ULTRA-LINE high-purity gases, the SDS Safeĭelivery Source and Semi-Gas Systems brands of gas-handling equipmentĪnd Nanochem purification systems. Semiconductor industry, as well as of gas-handling equipment and Major producer of specialty electronic gases, especially for the

Jersey-headquartered MATHESON GAS PRODUCTS, INC. Gases, both owned by Japan's top company in this field, NIPPON SANSOĬORP., have been merged in a cost-cutting move. Two of the biggest players in the American market for industrial
