Suppliers News
October 9, 2012
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has sponsored the semi-annual technical seminar of the Coatings Research Group Inc. (CRGI). An international industry association dedicated to the benefits of shared research and development, the CRGI recently staged its…
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October 5, 2012
Bayer MaterialScience has been honored by AkzoNobel’s Automotive & Aerospace Coatings business (A&AC) with “The Alliance Award for Superior Partnership”. Bayer MaterialScience has long supplied the Amsterdam-based company an…
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October 5, 2012
BASF and Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, are establishing a joint venture for the production and sale of biobased succinic acid. The company will be called Succinity GmbH and will be operational in 2013. The establishment of Succinity GmbH is subject to…
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October 4, 2012
Celanese recently launched its new website to better serve its customers’, stakeholders’, communities’ and employees’ needs. The new design features easy-to-use navigation, updated content, video, case-studies highlighting pro…
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October 4, 2012
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has unveiled its new website at www.ssi.shimadzu.com. The site now offers a clean, contemporary look and integrates with all of Shimadzu’s global websites.
The new website features updated navigation with improv…
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September 24, 2012
Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle-market specialty industrial and healthcare companies, has acquired IGM Resins, a provider of intermediates to the global ultraviolet (UV) radiation cure coatings, i…
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September 17, 2012
BASF has opened its first production plant for dispersions in South Africa located at Umbogintwini Industrial Complex in Durban. With this new production facility BASF will serve its customers in the fast growing South African and Sub-Saharan African…
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September 17, 2012
Singapore-based Spectrum Press International, which prints color cards for coatings manufacturers, has introduced Colour Critical, an alternative and cost efficient offset production process for the paint industry. Together with the latest offset equ…
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September 14, 2012
Solvay announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Sunshield Chemicals, an Indian company specializing in surfactants, from Amit Choksey Group. This acquisition will enable Solvay's Novecare business to accelera…
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September 13, 2012
PPG Industries is increasing its precipitated silica production capacity at its Lake Charles, La., manufacturing location by more than 22,000 tons per year in response to growing demand.
"Last September, we announced an increase in our global p…
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September 11, 2012
Michelman, a global developer of water-based packaging coatings and surface modifier additives, is expanding in the burgeoning Indian market with the opening of new offices in Mumbai. Led by Manoj Deorukhkar, Michelman’s new India country manag…
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September 10, 2012
Five years after Huntsman Polyurethanes teamed up with renewable resource-based polyol producer Alberdingk Boley to co-develop polyurethane solutions for the coatings market, the two companies are taking their alliance to a new level by targeting app…
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August 30, 2012
The inorganic pigments business unit (IPG) of the Lanxess specialty chemicals group has now published a case study on flagship buildings in Colombia. “Colombia Special” from the Colored Concrete Works series of publications describes the…
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August 29, 2012
Grace China Ltd., a subsidiary of W. R. Grace & Co., broke ground on its new production facility for waterproofing products in the central Chinese city of Ezhou. The planned 11,000 square meter facility is located on a 60 Chinese acre site (10 U.…
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August 28, 2012
Resinate Materials Group, Inc., a provider of resins and technology for the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers industries, has launched its first commercial resin product line, R-162, to the public. R-162 is a waterborne aromatic anionic po…
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