Suppliers News
January 19, 2012
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…
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January 19, 2012
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,…
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January 17, 2012
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…
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January 12, 2012
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…
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January 12, 2012
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…
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January 11, 2012
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…
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January 10, 2012
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…
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January 6, 2012
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…
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January 5, 2012
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…
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January 4, 2012
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…
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December 19, 2011
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…
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December 19, 2011
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…
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December 19, 2011
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…
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December 19, 2011
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…
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December 19, 2011
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…
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