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Exhibit 5.4

[DICKINSON DEES LOGO]   St. Ann's Wharf
112 Quayside
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3DX
   
    Tel: 0191 279 9000   Fax: 0191 279 9100

 

 

DX No 61191 Newcastle Upon Tyne
www.dickinson-dees.com

 

 

Direct Dial:

 

0191 279 9134
    Email:   Mark.Casey@dickinson-dees.com

 

 

Please quote our reference on all correspondence
Huntsman International LLC
500 Huntsman Way
Salt Lake City
Utah
84108
USA
  Our Ref:
Your ref:
  MJC/HUN/0179/00014

30 July 2010

Dear Sirs

Re: Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-167611)

        Reference is made to the Registration Statement on Form S-4, file no. 333-167611 (the "Registration Statement") filed by Huntsman International LLC ("Huntsman"), a Delaware limited liability company, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") in connection with the registration by Huntsman under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") of (i) the offer and exchange by Huntsman (the "Exchange Offer") of $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 8.675% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020 (the "Initial Notes") for a new series of notes bearing substantially identical terms and in like principal amount as the Initial Notes (the "Exchange Notes"), and (ii) the related guarantees (the "Guarantees") of certain subsidiaries of Huntsman listed in the Registration Statement as guarantors (the "Guarantors") of the Exchange Notes.

        We have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of:-

(the above numbered paragraphs (i) and (ii) together the "Transaction")

1.     DEFINITIONS

[LEXCEL LOGO]   [INVESTOR IN PEOPLE LOGO]   Dickinson Dees LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales under no OC317661. Registered office and principal place of business: St Ann's Wharf, 112 Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DX, where a list of the members' names is open to inspection.
  
Dickinson Dees LLP is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

2.     WHAT WE HAVE REVIEWED AND SEARCHES

3.     STATUS OF OPINION

4.     ASSUMPTIONS

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5.     OPINION

        Our opinion, under the law of England and Wales, is as follows.

6.     QUALIFICATIONS

        Our opinion is subject to various qualifications, as follows:-

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7.     TERMS ON WHICH OUR OPINION IS GIVEN

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Yours faithfully

/s/ Dickinson Dees LLP

Dickinson Dees LLP

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