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Insider News is a service of the National Paint & Coatings Association and Paint & Coatings Industry magazine
If you have information you would like to have included in this newsletter, please contact:
Karen Parker, Associate Editor
1679 Witherbee
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248-229-2681
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California Air Resources Board Releases Report
The California Air Resources Board staff conducted a survey of architectural coatings companies to gather information regarding products sold in California during 2004. The results of that survey are now available ...
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Benjamin Moore & Co. Acquires INSL-x Products Corp.
With an eye to expanding its share of the North American coatings market, Benjamin Moore & Co. has announced its intent to purchase select assets and brands of Insl-x Products Corp. ... More
Air Products Sells Interest in Polymers Joint Ventures
Air Products, Lehigh Valley, PA, has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its interest in its vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) polymers joint ventures to Wacker Chemie AG ... More
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Tronox Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend
The Tronox Inc. Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share of Class A and Class B common stock for the quarter ending March 31, 2008. The dividend will be payable April 1, 2008, to stockholders of record as of February 29, 2008. |
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Color Wheel Paint Announces Leadership Change
Comex Group (Consorcio Comex S.A. de C.V.) has announced a management change at Color Wheel Paints & Coatings Inc. (Color Wheel Paint) ... More
BASF Promotes Heidi Alderman
BASF Corp., Florham Park, NJ, has announced that effective January 1, 2008, Heidi Alderman will become Senior Vice President for NAFTA Procurement ... More
Sun Chemical Appoints Susan Guerin as Senior Vice President and CFO
Sun Chemical, Parsippany, NJ, has named Susan Guerin as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ... More
FKI Logistex® Expands Mexico City Office
FKI Logistex® has announced the addition of Alfredo Villacorta Ramos, Service Manager, to its regional office in Mexico City, Mexico ... More
Rohm and Haas Co. Elects Lovely
The Rohm and Haas Co. Board of Directors has elected Richard R. Lovely to be a Vice President ... More
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Bayer Foundation Awards $300,000 to MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering
The Bayer Foundation has bestowed a $300,000 grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Chemical Engineering ... More
ACCESSA Coatings Solutions Relocates Corporate Headquarters
ACCESSA Coatings Solutions is relocating its corporate headquarters and Indianapolis branch operations ... More
DSM Invests in New Waterborne-Resins Factory in China
Royal DSM N.V., Waalwijk, the Netherlands, has announced the start of construction of a new factory for the production of waterborne acrylic resins in China ... More
Spectratek Technologies and Silberline Agree to Disengagement
By mutual agreement, Silberline, Tamaqua, PA, will no longer distribute Geometric Pigment™ manufactured by Spectratek Technologies, Los Angeles, CA. Spectratek will continue to manufacture a family of two Geometric Pigment products, which offer formulators a variety of novel holographic effects. The agreement will be effective December 31, 2007.
H.B. Fuller Completes $100-Million Repurchase Program
H.B. Fuller Co., St. Paul, MN, has announced that it has completed its $100 million share repurchase plan that was announced in July. Under the plan, approximately 3.6-million shares of common stock were repurchased.
Malvern Offers Web Resource for Colloid Scientists
An extended section of the Malvern® Instruments website is devoted to colloids and colloidal stability issues ... More
Rohm and Haas Technology Receives Award
Rohm and Haas's AquasetTM technology has received a Top 10 Ranking in this year's EEP 2007 award at the Pollutec Show in Paris ... More |
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Tronox Announces Increases in Titanium Dioxide Prices
Tronox Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary companies, has announced price increases for all TRONOX® titanium dioxide grades sold in the Asia-Pacific region ...
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Rohm and Haas Announces Price Increase
Rohm and Haas's Packaging and Building Materials business has announced a price increase for all products sold in the Asia-Pacific region ... More
Eliokem Announces Worldwide Price Increase
Eliokem has announced a worldwide price increase across the range of all its coatings resins, Pliolite®, Plioway®, Hydro Pliolite® and Pliotec®. The price increase of up to 10 percent will come into effect on January 1, 2008.
Perstorp Announces Price Increase
Effective January 1, 2008, or as existing contracts permit, Perstorp will increase the price of its specialty polyols, pentaerythritol, trimethylolpropane, neopentyle glycol and ester alcohol ... More
BASF to Increase Prices for Polyetheramines in North America
Effective January 1, 2008, or as allowed by contract, BASF will increase all list and off-list prices in North America for its polyetheramine products as follows: polyetheramine D230 (PEA D230) U.S. $0.10 per pound; polyetheramine D2000 (PEA D2000) U.S. $0.10 per pound; polyetheramine D400 (PEA D400) U.S. $0.12 per pound; polyetheramine T403 (PEA T403) U.S. $0.12 per pound; and polyetheramine T5000 (PEA T5000) U.S. $0.12 per pound.
Nuplex Resins Increases Prices
Nuplex Resins has announced a price increase for coatings resins sold in North America effective January 7, 2008. The increase will be approximately 4-9 percent and will affect all solvent and waterborne products, including alkyds, acrylics, polyesters, emulsions and amino resins.
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Meetings, Courses & Other Events |
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PRA Conference Details Announced
The program for PRA's second international Waterborne and High-Solids Coatings conference is now available ... More
Technical Sessions Announced for RadTech 2008
Technologists from around the world will present over 200 papers detailing the science and application of UV and EB technology at the RadTech UV & EB Technology Expo & Conference, on May 4-7, 2008, at McCormick Place, Chicago ... More |
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