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OAK CLIFF - What looked late last year like the simple relocation of its manufacturing operation from Connecticut to Texas has turned into a major headache for A.C. Molding Compounds.
Since that time, A.C. Molding has become the first company ever to be denied a tax-abatement request in Dallas.
Worse yet for the Connecticut-based company, it also is facing the possible loss of its air-quality permit, because neighbors are suddenly worried about A.C. Molding's southern Dallas plant, which has been operating there for 43 years.
The firm's troubles began in 1999, when privately held A.C. Molding purchased the Plastics Manufacturing Co. plant in southern Dallas from Ohio-based Borden Chemical Inc.
The 350,000-square-foot plant, located on Westmoreland Drive just south of Interstate 30 and west of Interstate 35, employs 200. It
producers about 40 million pounds a year of urea- and melamine-based molding compounds that are sold to end users for molded electrical components compounds.
A.C. Molding, a joint venture of New Jersey-based Cytec Industries Inc. and Israeli-based Carmel Chemicals, had similar operations at part of its Cytec plant in Wallingford, Conn., and had decided to move those operations to Dallas.
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