[Miguel]

Originally Posted by Goose

No dice on the Ciba website - it looks like they were sold to somebody in '99. Guess that's why Lotus is using somebody else!

From:
http://www.allbusiness.com/periodica.../682738-1.html

Ciba Polymers Is Now Vantico
Ciba Specialty Chemicals of Basel, Switzerland, has completed the sale of its Performance Polymers epoxy business to Morgan Grenfell Private Equity of the U.K. The business is now called Vantico and is based in Basel. It has three divisions, Adhesives and Tooling, Electronic Polymers, and Polymer Specialties (which includes structural composites).

And from:
http://www.polymer-age.co.uk/archive64.htm

Huntsman to get control of Vantico
June 25, 2003 The European Commission has approved the proposed takeover of Luxembourg-based Vantico Group (best known for its rapid tooling resins and Araldite adhesives) by Huntsman of the USA. The deal, announced earlier this year, involves the US investment company MatlinPatterson exchanging debt for equity in Vantico, thereby becoming its principal shareholder. MatlinPatterson is joint owner (with John Huntsman) of Huntsman Holdings, and will pass control of Vantico to Huntsman.
The EC was interested in the possibility of Vantico improving its position in liquid formulations for tooling by having access to Huntsman's diamine-based epoxy curing agents, but has concluded that the companies' relative shares in the downstream and upstream markets were unlikely to create a dominant position in tooling.

Here is their page.
http://www.huntsman.com/