Trinseo, a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, recently launched its new pilot plant and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) capacity expansion at Schkopau, Germany. Business leaders and dignitaries, including Dr. Reiner Haseloff, Minister-President of…
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