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<p><span class="NewsSummaryText">Stepan announced May 1, 2007 the sale of its Personal Care ester product line to The HallStar Company&#160;along with the acquisition of the Hallcomid product line, an agricultural surfactant product line,&#160;from The HallStar Company.</span></p>
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<p><span class="RightBarHeaderLarge">Using Stepan&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span></p>

<p><span class="RightBarHeaderLarge">products ...</span></p>

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<p align="left"><span class="RightBarCategory"><a class="RightBarCategoryLink" href="/en/markets/coatings_adhesives.asp">Adhesives</a></span></p>

<p align="left"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><span class="RightBarCategory"><a class="RightBarCategoryLink" href="/en/markets/personal_care.asp">Bar Soap</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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