
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 23, 1994                    TAG: 9406230449 
SECTION: BUSINESS                     PAGE: D2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: BY DAVE MAYFIELD, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: 940623                                 LENGTH: Short

SUFFOLK-BASED ALLIED COLLOIDS TO ADD $10 MILLION, 10-JOB PLANT

{LEAD} Allied Colloids North America Inc. said it will build a plant in Suffolk to manufacture an ingredient of polymers, an investment of more than $10 million that will add 10 jobs.

The Suffolk-based company, a subsidiary of Britain's Allied Colloids PLC, said the highly automated facility will begin production in early 1996 and have the capacity to produce 22 million pounds of acrylamide a year.

{REST} The technology for the plant is being licensed from Japan's Mitsubishi Kasei Corp., which will have the right to sell part of the production to its own customers.

David Farrar, president of Allied Colloids North America, said the facility would allow the Suffolk plant to discontinue importing acrylamide from the United Kingdom.

Since establishing a manufacturing operation in Suffolk in 1983, Allied Colloids has steadily expanded its presence in the city. It now employs 385 people there. The U.S. subsidiary based there has sales in the United States, Canada and Mexico of about $150 million a year.

Farrar said more expansions are planned in Suffolk, but he declined to offer details.

Polymers, Allied Colloid's main products, are chemicals that are used extensively in water treatment and in the mining, paper and oil industries. by CNB