If you've got a Urethane plant,

you've got a

rubber plant

thanks to Poly bd Liquid Resins.

With your same equipment, same technology, and many of your same customers, you can greatly expand your product line as well as your profits. Now, by using Poly bd Liquid Resins, you can cast the properties of general purpose rubber as easily as you cast Urethanes.

Arco Poly bd Liquid Butadiene based polyols give you a castable organic rubber with highly controllable characteristics. You don't need Banbury Mixers. You cure between room temperatures and 300° F. And your end product has saleable advantages, including: excellent

hydrolytic stability, even in boiling water; exceptional performance far below 0°F; 2000 psi tensile strength.

In these days of profit squeeze, try the profit stretch—Poly bd Liquid Resins. We'll be happy to help. The Arco Spark—in our trademark-could spark something for you,

ARCO Chemical Company Division of AtlanticRichfieldCompany • Petrochemicals Department 260 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101 • Phone (215) 985-9150

120 South Riverside Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312)346-5900

600 Fifth Avenue 3781 N.E. Expressway New York, New York 10020 Atlanta, Georgia 30340 (212) 246-3600 (404) 451 -6337

325 Houston Natural Gas Bldg. Houston, Texas 77002 (713)224-8984

5505 East Carson, Suite 255 Lakewood, California 90713 (213)421-4732

We offer the following line of the finest petrochemicals: Isophthalic Acid; SMA® Resins; Ultrawet® Surfactants; Sulfonic Acid; Poly bd® Liquid Resins; Aromatic and Aliphatic Solvents; Xylene (5° C), Toluene (1° C), Benzene; o-Xylene, p-Xylene, m-Xylene; Odorless Solvents; Methyl Ethyl Ketone; Isopropyl Alcohol; Butadiene, Butylenes; Nonenes; Propylene Tetramer; Ethylene, Propylene; Sulfur.

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