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Huntsman Corporation Description

Huntsman Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the manufacture and sale of differentiated organic and inorganic chemical products worldwide. The company operates in five segments: Polyurethanes, Performance Products, Advanced Materials, Textile Effects, and Pigments. The Polyurethanes segment offers polyurethane chemicals, including methyl diphenyl diisocyanate, propylene oxide, polyols, propylene glycol, thermoplastic polyurethane, aniline, and methyl tertiary-butyl ether products, which are used to produce rigid and flexible foams, as well as coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers. The Performance Products segment provides amines, carbonates, surfactants, linear alkyl benzene, maleic anhydride, performance chemicals, ethylene glycol, olefins, and technology licenses. The Advanced Materials segment offers epoxy resin compounds and formulations; cross-linking, matting agents, and curing agents; and epoxy, acrylic and polyurethane-based adhesives, and tooling resin formulations. The Textile Effects segment provides textile chemicals and dyes. The Pigments segment offers titanium dioxide. The company's products are used in various applications, such as adhesives, aerospace, automotive, construction products, personal care and hygiene, durable and non-durable consumer products, electronics, medical, packaging, paints and coatings, power generation, refining, synthetic fiber, textile chemicals, and dye industries. Huntsman Corporation was founded in 1970 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Chemicals
Keywords: Aerospace Electronics Natural Sciences Plastic Textiles Adhesives Chemical Product Hygiene Commodity Chemicals Thermoplastic Sealant Titanium Tooling Construction Products Elastomer Amines Surfactant Organic Polymers Polyol Polyurethane Advanced Materials Dyes Performance Chemicals Synthetic Fiber Titanium Dioxide Durable Consumer Products Epoxy Performance Products Propylene Glycol Urethane Chemicals