USA. Bloomsburg, PA—September 16, 2014. — KYDEX, LLC and ALLEN Extruders, LLC have officially come together as SEKISUI Polymer Innovations, LLC. The creation of this new global business is part of SEKISUI Chemical's long-term strategy to strengthen their current investment in the plastics manufacturing and thermoforming industry. SEKISUI Polymer Innovations, LLC is headquartered in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania with a second location in Holland, Michigan.

"By bringing the KYDEX® and ALLEN® thermoplastics brands together under the SPI business brand, we are setting a new standard of excellence for the plastics industry to think, design, and create," said Ronn Cort, SEKISUI Polymer Innovations, LLC, COO and President. "The combined research and development capabilities and products of the many SEKISUI companies will continue to result in better solutions for our customers."

Through support and financial backing of SEKISUI Chemical, the new company will provide their customers with access to new global resources in technology and R&D as well as manufacturing processes that result in higher quality products.

"The name is new," said Cort, "but you know us. We are the same people you have relied on in the past, with the same commitment to create safer, lighter products that exceed the demanding aesthetic requirements of the markets, industries, and businesses we help build."