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JLM Marketing Buys Franklin Polymers.

Chemicals and plastics distributor JLM Industries, Inc. of Tampa, Fla., has purchased the resin distribution business of Franklin Polymers, Inc. of Broomall, Pa. Headed by Roger F. Jones, Franklin Polymers was the U.S. distributor of Gafone PEEK resins from Gharda Chemicals in India, while JLM

is the exclusive distributor of Gharda's Gafone polysulfone, polyethersulfone, and polyphenylsulfone resins. Now JLM has all of Gharda's products under one roof. Franklin also distributed Mitsubishi Engineering Plastics' acetal, MXD6 nylon, and polycarbonate, as well as Mitsubishi Rayon's acrylic and Chisso's Z-Clean purging compounds.

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