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Business Operation | Industry News
Reichhold opens manufacturing plant in China
Reichhold launched its new manufacturing facility in Tianjin in northern China in December 2011. With 20 manufacturing sites and five technology centers across the globe, Reichhold has further strengthened its presence in the global market with its e…01.19.12
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DuPont Titanium Technologies hikes costs for Ti Pure TiO2 grades globally
Effective Feb. 1, 2012, DuPont Titanium Technologies will implement a net price increase of 200 Euros per metric ton, or as permitted by contract, for all DuPont Ti Pure titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades for all countries in which invoicing is in Euro,…01.19.12
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Industrial Coatings | Industry News
Pflaumer introduces new amine-functional resin for polyaspartic, polyurea and polyurethane coatings
Pflaumer Brothers, Inc. of Ewing, N.J., United States, introduced a new amine-functional resin for polyurea polyaspartic coatings used on concrete, metal, plastic composites, wood and other substrates. The polyaspartic amine, designated Teraspartic…01.17.12
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Industry News | Laboratory Equipment | Production Equipment
New 2012 catalog from Brookfield Engineering
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories has released their new 2012 full-color catalog presenting Brookfield’s complete line of viscometers/rheometers (both laboratory and in-line), texture analyzers and powder flow testers. This year’s cata…01.12.12
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Additives | Business Operation | Industry News
AkzoNobel completes acquisition of Chinese surfactants producer
AkzoNobel has completed its acquisition of China’s leading specialty surfactant producer, Boxing Oleochemicals. Boxing is a supplier of nitrile amines and derivatives, which are used in a variety of industrial and consumer applications includin…01.12.12
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Industry News | Laboratory Equipment
Q-Lab launches new website
Q-Lab, a provider of accelerated weathering test equipment and outdoor exposure test services, has launched a new website at www.q-lab.com. The website has ten times the content of the previous site said the company, and is available in Chinese, Eng…01.11.12
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Business Operation | Industry News
Celanese completes acquisition of product lines from Ashland Inc.
Celanese Corporation has completed the acquisition of certain assets from Ashland Inc., including two product lines—Vinac and Flexbond—which will support the growth of the Celanese Emulsion Polymers business. “This acquisition will…01.10.12
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Bluestar Silicones opens resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory
In France Bluestar Silicones inaugurated its new resin manufacturing unit in its Saint Fons factory. The new production unit, named IRIS, will enable the resin production capacity to be doubled. Around sixty engineers and technicians have been invol…01.06.12
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Huntsman strengthens its presence in key markets with a Turkish PU house acquisition
Huntsman Corporation has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. The EMA systems house has the capacity to manufacture polyester polyols and blend MDI polyurethane systems used primaril…01.05.12
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Additives | Business Operation | Industry News | Wood Coatings
Perstorp & PTT Global Chemical sign JV for manufacture and sale of products for PU industry
The joint venture for the worldwide manufacturing and sales of products for the polyurethane industry between specialty chemicals company Perstorp and PTT Global Chemical has been signed. At a ceremony in Grenoble, France, the future cooperation agr…01.04.12
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Additives | Industry News | Pigments
BASF to move its global headquarters for dispersions and pigments division to Hong Kong
BASF plans to establish the global headquarters of its dispersions and pigments division in Hong Kong. As of January 1, 2012, the division head and about 50 global positions, currently located in Ludwigshafen and Basel, Switzerland will transition to…12.19.11
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Dow and Saudi Aramco sign agreement for Sadara Chemical Company
Saudi Aramco president and CEO Khalid Al-Falih and Dow chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris signed a joint venture shareholders' agreement for Sadara Chemical Company. Sadara will be comprised of 26 manufacturing units, several of which constitute &q…12.19.11
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Dow Performance Monomers increases capacity of crude acrylic acid
The Performance Monomers business of The Dow Chemical Company has increased crude acrylic acid (CAA) capacity at its Deer Park, Texas facility by 15%. This capacity increase is a result of various improvement projects implemented in the CAA Oxi…12.19.11
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Lubrizol to buy thermoplastic polyurethane maker Merquinsa
The Lubrizol Corporation has expanded its engineered polymers business with the purchase of Merquinsa, a maker of specialty thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs). Located in Barcelona, Spain, Merquinsa products are used in a wide range of applicati…12.19.11
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DSM Coatings Resins plans organizational alignment
DSM Coating Resins has outlined plans to align the organization with its strategic focus on its core coating and graphic arts resins markets. As part of these plans, the business unit will merge two business units (formerly known as DSM Powder Coatin…12.19.11
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Additives | Industry News
Taminco launches new websites
Taminco has launched redesigned websites for the company’s coatings additives Advantex and Vantex-T. Visitors to the websites (advantexamine.com and vantex-t.com) will be able to find product brochures, technical and performance data and resear…12.19.11
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Binders | Industry News | Solvents
Wacker expands its technical center for polymer dispersions for coatings and paint applications in India
Wacker, the Munich-based chemical company, has expanded its technical center in India. This center of excellence located in Goregaon, a suburb of Mumbai, now also includes laboratories, applications technology and test equipment for polymer dispersio…12.19.11
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Horn opens new corporate facility
Now known as Horn—formerly E.T. Horn—a distributor of specialty ingredients and materials, the company has brought its business units together to work collaboratively in a new corporate facility. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year…12.19.11
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PNWSCT issues call for papers
The Pacific Northwest Society for Coatings Technology (PNWSCT) has issued a call for papers for the PNWSCT Coatings Fest 2012, which will be held October 10-12 in Semiahmoo, Washington. Topics of interest for the conference include: new product appli…12.19.11
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Konica Minolta Sensing launches new corporate website
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), a leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, launched their new corporate website to better serve its customers in the Americas. KMSA departed from its past web structure and pushed t…12.19.11
