Polymer Corporation

[2] A factory was established in Sarnia, Ontario, using German patents on the Buna-S[3] technology from an American licensee (IG Farben and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly held the rights).

[1] Sarnia was chosen because it is the point of intake the most secure and reliable source of crude oil coming into Canada; a type suitable for the synthetic rubber making process.

Clarence Decatur Howe, under whose Department of Munitions and Supply the company fell, decided to keep Polymer going as a Crown corporation after the war.

Polymer therefore survived the war, reporting through Howe and his successors to Parliament until 1971 when it was sold to the Canada Development Corporation which was a government controlled enterprise.

"'[9]The company was privatized in 1988 with its sale to NOVA Corp which, in turn, sold Polysar Rubber in 1990 to Bayer AG of Germany.

Polymer Corporation's plant in Sarnia as depicted on the Bank of Canada $10 note issued in 1971