He spent 12 years at Valspar Corporation with increasing roles of responsibility, including vice president, where he was accountable for the North American segment of its liquid, powder, electrocoat and after market specialty chemical businesses. Midea also earned an MBA from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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Equipment maintenance: Maintaining plastisol mixing equipment up to industry standards may prove costly, and can require a significant amount of time from production operators. You’ll need to account for added inventory planning steps and raw material delivery cycles.

Homepage // News Center // PolyOne Acquires Specialty Assets From Accella Performance Materials CLEVELAND – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced the acquisition of specialty assets from Accella Performance Materials, a leading North American manufacturer of liquid polymer formulations. They are based on management’s expectations that involve a number of business risks and uncertainties, any of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements.

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Equipment maintenance: Maintaining plastisol mixing equipment up to industry standards may prove costly, and can require a significant amount of time from production operators. You’ll need to account for added inventory planning steps and raw material delivery cycles.

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