Top Defensive Companies To Buy For 2015

Top Defensive Companies To Buy For 2015: Trinseo S.A. (TSE)

Trinseo S.A. (Trinseo), incorporated on June 3, 2010, is a materials company engaged in the manufacture and marketing of specialty and customized emulsion polymers and plastics. The Company develops products for global, diversified end markets, including coated paper and packaging board, carpet and artificial turf backing, automotive applications, including tires, food service packaging, appliances, consumer electronics and construction applications, among others. The Company operates under two principal business units: Emulsion Polymers business unit, which includes an Synthetic Rubber (SB) Latex segment and a SB segment, and Plastics business unit, which includes Styrenics segment and an Engineered Polymers segment. Trinseos major products include styrene-butadiene latex (SB latex), styrene-acrylate latex (SA latex), solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), lithium polybutadiene rubber (Li-PBR), emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESBR), nickel polybutadiene rubber (N i-PBR), polystyrene, expandable polystyrene (EPS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN), ignition resistant polystyrene, polycarbonate resins (PC), compounds and blends, and polypropylene compounds.

Synthetic Rubber (SB) Latex Segment

The Company produce SB latex primarily for coated paper used in advertising and magazines, packaging board coatings, carpet and artificial turf backings, as well as a number of performance latex applications. It operates in various countries, such as North America, Europe and Asia.

Synthetic Rubber Segment

The Company is a producer of styrene-butadiene and polybutadiene-based rubber products. The Company has synthetic rubber technology and product portfolios, which focuses on specialty products, such as SSBR and Li-PBR, while also producing core products, such as ESBR and Ni-PBR. Its Synthetic Rubber products are extensively used in tires, with additi! onal appl ications, including polymer modification and technical rubbe! r goods.

Styrenics Segment

The Companys Styrenics segment includes polystyrene, ABS, SAN, and EPS products, as well as its internal production and sourcing of styrene monomer, a raw material common in SB latex, synthetic rubber and styrenics products. It is a producer of polystyrene and mass ABS (mABS). Trinseo focuses its marketing efforts on applications, such as appliances and consumer electronics. The Styrenics segment also serves the packaging and construction end-use markets.

Engineered Polymers Segment

The Company is a producer of engineered polymers. Its products are used in automotive, consumer electronics, and construction and sheet end markets. Trinseo focuses on differentiated products, which it produces in its compounds and blends manufacturing facilities located across Europe, Asia, North America and Brazil. Its Engineered Polymers segment also compounds and blends its polycarbonate resins and mABS plas tics into differentiated products within these sectors.

The Company competes with BASF, Nippon Zeon, LG Chemicals and Bayer.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Vanina Egea]

  Gary Dickerson is following a similar acquisitions strategy to the one it had used at Varian Semiconductor in 2012. The company is currently on the process (presumably closed by second mid-term of 2014) of merging with Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. (TSE) (11% of the market share), one of the three big names in the industry. This will create a new company worth $29 billion. Combined with the 14% market share of Applied Materials, this new company would capture the biggest slice of the market share, and the broad product portfolio of both companies ensures the coverage of many segments of the market. The new company would use Tokyo Electron's material supplies to improve its costs.

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