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Volume 95 — Number 198	Mississippi	Coast,	Thursday	Afternoon,	July	12,	1979	4	Sections,	40	Pages
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Borg Warner Chemicals to build Hancock plant
ODE1E PERANICH Herald Bay Bureau
Borg-Wamer Chemicals, an operating unit of Borg-Warner Corp., announced today it will build a $50 million plastics plant at Hancock County’s Port Bienville Industrial Park.
The plant is scheduled for completion in 1982.
Leonard A. Harvey, president of Borg-Warner Chemicals-Ameri-cas, Parkersburg, W. Va., made the announcement Thursday morn-
ing at a Diamondhead press conference attended by representatives of the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission, the Hancock board of supervisors, the office of Gov. Cliff Finch, the office of Fifth District Congressman Trent Lott, the Mississippi Research and Development Center, other Borg-Warner officials and the news media.
Harvey said the plant, when completed, will employ about 100 persons, largely local. He also said
Borg-Warner anticipates hiring local construction firms during the 30-months construction period.
The plant will have an annual capacity to produce 150 million pounds of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) engineering thermoplastics. The material is used in automobile interior and exterior trim parts, appliance, tele-communications, business machines housings, pipe, sporting goods and recreational equipment
such as boats, cameras and snowmobiles.
Borg-Warner Chekmicals also manufactures speciality chemicals used to improve properties to thermoplastics, rubber and adhesives.
The site selected is 205 acres in the industrial park located near Pearlington in western Hancock County.
Harvey said, "We view the market for ABS plastics as growing six to eight percent a year. The U. S.
market demand for ABS will hit 1.3 billion pounds in 1979 and 2 billion pounds in 1985.”
Borg-Warner is the largest ABS manufacturer in the United States and in the world.
Harvey said the new plant will bring U. S. capacity to more than 800 million pounds and world-wide capacity to 1.4 billion pounds annually when in production.
He said Borg-Warner looks forward to a long and mutually
beneficial relationship with ti Coast area. “We are an aggressn company and leaders in our i: dustry,” Harvey said. "Our pro-ucts touch everyone and make 11 safer and more convenient.’*
Other Borg-Warner plants on tl North American continent are 1 cated at Morgantown, W. Va., C tawa, 111., Oxnard, Calif., ai Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
Headquarters for Borg-Warn Corp. are in Chicago.