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MOSCOW (MRC) -- MFG Chemical, a global
leader in specialty and custom chemical manufacturing, says it is moving its
corporate headquarters to Chattanooga, Tennessee from Dalton, Georgia, according
to Chemweek.
The move is due to
growth at the company, which has created a need for more work space at the
headquarters.
MFG’s manufacturing sites at Dalton will continue to
operate, with executive, finance, human resources, and sales staff relocating to
Chattanooga, which is 25 miles from Dalton.
“MFG Chemical has outgrown
its original headquarters in Dalton, Georgia,” says MFG president and CEO Paul
Turgeon.
The new headquarters location will be in downtown
Chattanooga.
As MRC reported earlier,
in October 2019, MFG Chemical successfully renewed its ISO 9001:2015
Certifications at each of its three Dalton, Georgia facilities. MFG was one of
the first chemical companies to achieve ISO 9001: 2015 certification in October
of 2016, and has now been audited and certified four times.
We remind
that MFG Chemical has upgradied its
Pasadena, Texas plant, which the company acquired in March 2018. The acquisition
of the Pasadena plant, together with the company’s 3 plants in Northwest
Georgia, made MFG Chemical one of America’s largest consumers of Maleic
Anhydride (MA). Pasadena plant improvements were scheduled for completion
by the end of the 1st Quarter of 2019, and entail a multi-million dollar
investment.
Maleic anhydride is a feedstock for the production of
tetrahydrofuran, tetrahydrophthalic anhydride, films and synthetic fibers,
pharmaceuticals, detergents, plasticizers, maleic, succinic, fumaric and malic
acids, and a number of agricultural chemicals.
Plasticizers are
substances introduced into a polymeric material to make it elastic and plastic
during processing and operation. In particular, plasticizers are used for the
production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The share of plasticizers used for the
production of PVC products is about 80%.
According to MRC's DataScope report,
imports of suspension polyvinyl chloride (SPVC) into Russia totalled 13,800
tonnes in the first half of 2020, up by 5% year on year, whereas exports grew by
7% year on year. |
