Abstract
Four chemical companies are shutting down units and relocating operations. In three of the cases, jobs are being cut. BP Solvay Polyethylene says it will close 260 million lb per year of high-density polyethylene capacity at its Deer Park, Texas, facility in the first half of 2003. The company will replace the capacity with a 700 million-lb plant it is building in partnership with Chevron Phillips Chemical in Cedar Bayou, Texas. It hasn't determined how many jobs will be lost. Eastman Chemical is moving a coatings technology center from Carpentersville, III., to its Kingsport, Tenn., headquarters. The company says there will be 50 to 60 fewer jobs in Carpentersville, although 40 jobs will move to Kingsport. Manufacturing will continue at the Carpentersville site, which came with Eastman's 2000 purchase of McWhorter Technologies. Sovereign Specialty Chemicals is closing a waterborne adhesives plant in Cincinnati that employs 118 people. The company is moving production ...
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