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Health and Safety Executive, The Fire at Allied Colloids Ltd., Her Majesty s Stationery Office, London, 1994. 

Ciba Chemical Specialties, S.A., which now includes Allied Colloids and CPS, with brands such as Percol , Magnafloc , Zetag , and Agefloc ... 

Minerals. The polymer used in this study is partially hydrolysed polyacrylamide (HPAM), supplied by Allied Colloids Ltd, Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Approximately 10mol% of the monomer units are hydrolysed and are present as sodium acrylate with a polyacrylamide-coacrylate copolymer having a molecular mass of approximately 6 x lO D. The study minerals quartz, kaolinite and feldspar were collected from the Lee Moor China Clay Pit in Devon, UK. Mica was obtained in sheet form from Agar Scientific. 

The polyacrylic acids were supplied by Allied Colloids Ltd, Bradford, England. 

Finally, it is worth mentioning that Allied Colloids have employed a counterflow oxidation reactor,17 which has a residence time of hydrogenated working solution of less than 2.5 min at a partial oxygen pressure of 70-100 kPa. 

The largest production of acrylamide is in Japan the United States and Europe also have large production facilities. Some production is carried out in the Eastern Bloc countries, but details concerning quantities or processes are difficult to obtain. The principal producers in North America are The Dow Chemical Company, American Cyanamid Company, and Nalco Chemical Company (internal use) Dow sells only aqueous product and American Cyanamid sells both liquid and solid monomer. In Europe, Cliemisclie Fabrik Stockhausen Cie,. .Allied Colloids, The Dow Chemical Company, and Cyanamid BV are producers Dow and. American Cyanamid are the only suppliers to the merchant market, and crystalline monomer is available from. American Cyanamid. For Japan, producers are Alitsubislii Chemical Industries, Alitsui Toatsu, and Nitto Chemical Industries Company (captive market). Crystals and solutions are available from Alitsui Toatsu and Alitsubislii, whereas only solution monomer is available from Nitto. 

Ciba, Clariant, Degussa-Huls, ICI, Allbright-Wilson (until 09/99), Allied Colloids (until 03/ 98), Courtaulds, Croda, Elementis, Laporte, Sud-Chemie, SKW Trostberg, johnson Matthey Source Datastream, McKinsey analysis... 

The other common response has been mergers and acquisitions. The past five years have seen an unprecedented level of deals in which entire companies have been purchased in a drive for economies of scale (e.g., Rohm and Haas/Morton, Ciba/Allied Colloids). However, analysts believe that many of these deals were ill conceived, or that the purchaser paid too high a price, leading to a further deterioration in net incomes and market valuations. 

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