The Midland, Michigan-based company still gets 40% of its revenues from basic commodity chemicals and plastics.

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For two decades Huntsman had been one of the world's largest privately held producers of commodity chemicals like polystyrene.

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More than just another deal for Dow, the sale of 50.0% of its plastics business to a Kuwaiti state company was part of its strategy to reduce its exposure to the cyclical nature of the commodity chemicals business.

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Commodity purveyors like paper, cement, chemicals and aluminum hold little upside price or demand leverage in 1998.

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Although the companies produce these chemicals in huge quantities, they are not commodity products because it takes Huntsman proprietary technology to make them both cheaply and at a consistent quality.

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Another major commodity imported into the port is bulk oil, both crude and refined products as well as chemicals.

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The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.

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