New Firm Gets Ticona's Topas COC

Topas Advanced Polymers (TAP) is a new joint venture that has acquired the Topas cyclic-olefin copolymer (COC) business of Ticona. TAP has offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and at the Ticona facility in Florence, Ky. TAP is a joint venture of two Japanese firms, Daicel Chemical Industries and Polyplastics Co., which is a joint venture of Daicel and Ticona.