Lucite International (Southampton.

Lucite International (Southampton, UK) the market leader in methyl methacrylate (MMA), is reaping the benefits of an efficiency improvement program with improved sales and earnings. The company is also preparing to reinforce its leading market position with startup of an MMA plant in China and commercialization of a proprietary, low-cost MMA technology that has the potential "to transform our business, and the whole industry," says Lucite CEO Ian Lambert.

Lucite is the former acrylics business of ICI, which was acquired in 1999 on a group of investors l from private equity capital company Charterhouse disentanglement Capital (CDC; London). ...

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