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Chroma adds Mexican distributor

23 March 2009

Chroma Corporation and Resinal S.A de C.V have entered into an agreement where Resinal S.A. de C.V. in Mexico becomes a stocking distributor and sales agent for the entire line of compounded products offered by Chroma Corporation.

 Chroma Corporation's agreement includes concentrates, precolour, glass-filled compounds, photoluminescent, and the entire line of products designed for the rotational moulding community, which includes ground precolour, dry colours, standard line of granite colours and foam products. Resinal S.A. de C.V. will add these products to its existing line of nylon, polyacetal, polycarbonate, ABS, PC/ABS, PBT, SAN, ASA, and its line of commodity resins.

Fernando Gonzalez, Resinal’s director general stated: “Adding Chroma’s extensive product line will give Resinal the ability to service our current customers with a more extensive product offering”.
Resinal S.A. de C.V is a distributor of engineering and commodity resins in Mexico. The company has two warehouses, one in Mexico City and one in Monterrey.
Chroma Corporation is a global thermoplastic compounded raw material leader and offers a broad range of custom colour, special effect, and speciality additives in masterbatches and precompounded products in commodity and engineering thermoplastic resins for extrusion, injection moulding, blown film and many other processes and applications including rotational moulding.

 

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