2.Leggett & Platt, industrial-materials maker.
"It's only offset part of it," said Frank Mendizabal, a spokesman for Weyerhaeuser, the paper and building materials maker.
Owens Corning, the building materials maker, was typical of old-economy companies that turned more toward cash and restricted stock.
His father was a research chemist at Armstrong World Industries, the floor and ceiling materials maker in Lancaster, Pa.
The world's largest building-materials maker, Lafarge of France, raised its hostile bid for Blue Circle Industries, the biggest British cement maker, to $3.65 billion $5.76 billionon).
A packaging materials maker, the Bemis Company, agreed yesterday to acquire the specialty plastic films business of the Viskase Companies for $245 million.
Correction: September 25 , 2002 Wednesday An article in World Business on Sept. 5 about CRH, a building materials maker, referred incorrectly to its market share in Ireland.
An article in World Business on Sept. 5 about CRH, a building materials maker, referred incorrectly to its market share in Ireland.
IN a promising show of force by a company's owners, three directors at Texas Industries, a construction materials maker with almost $850 million in sales, got the boot last week.
REUTERS OM Group in $1 Billion Deal | The OM Group, a specialty chemicals company based in Cleveland, is set to buy the German magnetic materials maker Vacuumschmelze for 700 million euros ($1 billion) from One Equity Partners, an investment arm of JPMorgan Chase.
