Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, finechemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.
Bulriss also wants to build Great Lakes' finechemicals business, which does the increasingly outsourced complex chemical production work for drug companies.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals deep into oil and gas wells to crack gas-bearing rock.