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Top Industry News                                June 30, 2008 Issue

Radtech 2008 Best Paper Award Winners Announced

The best papers presented at the RadTech 2008 Conference and Exhibition in Chicago have been announced ... More 

Acquisition Action Report

LANXESS Announces First Acquisition in China
With its first acquisition in China, specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is expanding the Asian business of its Inorganic Pigments business unit ... More

The People File

Dwayne Roark Joins Dow Biocides and Angus Chemical Co. 
Dwayne J. Roark has been appointed Business Communications Manager for Dow Biocides and ANGUS Chemical Co ... More 

UGL Hires William G. Jenkins
United Gilsonite Laboratories (UGL) has announced the appointment of William G. Jenkins to its laboratory team as Research and Development Chemist/Formulator ... More

International Paint Hires Doug Kirkner
International Paint LLC, a division of Akzo Nobel, has hired Doug Kirkner to serve as High Value Infrastructure/Fire Protection Engineering Sales Manager throughout the northeastern United States ... More 

Meyers Engineering Hires Federico Robles
Myers Engineering has added Federico Robles to its sales team ... More 

Joseph Finan Joins INX International
Industry veteran Joseph Finan has joined INX International Ink Co. as Manager, Special Projects - Metal Division ... More

Datacolor Appoints Albert Busch
Datacolor has announced that Albert Busch will serve as the new Vice President for its industrial line of products ... More

Cray Valley Promotes Mohamed Dekiouk
Cray Valley has promoted Mohamed Dekiouk to Global Manufacturing Manager, Hydrocarbon Resins ... More

CCP Appoints Ken Moran Vice President-Coatings
Ken Moran has been named Vice President for the coatings division of Cook Composites and Polymers Co ... More 

Flint Group's Deputy Chairman to Retire
Flint Group has announced that Dave Frescoln, Deputy Chairman, plans to resign from the Board and retire from the company at the end of July 2008 ... More

Brenntag Specialties to Distribute for Sun Chemical
Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has appointed Brenntag Specialties Inc., a global chemical distributor, as its sales agent for key areas in the western and southern United States ... More

Hexion Files Suit to Terminate Huntsman Purchase 
Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. has filed suit in a Delaware court to declare its contractual rights with respect to its $10.6 billion merger agreement with Huntsman Corp., effectively terminating the deal ... More

Becker Industrie to Have Subsidiary in U.A.E.
Becker Industrie, an industrial paint specialist, has further expanded its business by setting up a subsidiary in the state of Ras Al Khaimah in the U.A.E. ... More

Asian Paints Breaks Ground on New Paint Plant in India
Asian Paints held a ground-breaking ceremony at the site of its proposed state-of-the-art paint plant located at the Industrial Model Township, Rohtak, Haryana ... More 

CAAC Certifies Argosy's Shanghai Coatings Facility
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has certified Argosy International's Shanghai facility for custom blending Akzo Nobel's aerospace coatings that meet airline, AOG and maintenance requirements ... More 

Wheelabrator Opens New Manufacturing Center in Poland
Wheelabrator Group has opened a new manufacturing facility in Poland ... More 

Rohm and Haas Starts Operations in Mexico Plant
Rohm and Haas Co. has begun operations at its new plant in Querיtaro, Mexico ... More

Fetter Label Named Sherwin-Williams' 2007 Supplier of the Year
Fetter Label was recently named a Sherwin-Williams' 2007 Supplier of the Year ... More

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings to Increase Prices
AkzoNobel Powder Coatings has announced that it will raise prices by as much as 15 percent for certain products ... More

Sun Chemical Performance Pigments Increases Prices 
Due to a dramatic spike in raw material, energy and transportation costs, Sun Chemical Corp.'s Performance Pigments Division will increase global pigment prices on average by 10 to 30 percent effective July 1 ... More

DOW Raises Price of VAM
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) has announced that, effective July 1, 2008, or as individual contract terms allow, it will raise the price of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) in all regions of the world ... More

BASF Announces Resin Product Surcharge 
BASF Resins has announced that it will implement a surcharge on all resins products sold to all North American domestic and export customers effective July 1, 2008 ... More

EMS-PRIMID to Increase Price of Crosslinkers
EMS-PRIMID will globally increase the price of its range of PrimidÒ crosslinkers ... More 

Perstorp Increases Prices
Effective July 1, 2008, or as existing contracts permit, Perstorp will increase prices for various specialty polyols ... More

DSM Powder Coating Resins Announces Price Increase
DSM Powder Coating Resins has announced a price increase for its range of Uralac^® powder coating resins ... More

Tronox Announces TiO2 Price Increases
Tronox Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary companies, has announced a price increase for TRONOX^® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades ... More

See other recent price adjustments at www.pcimag.com by clicking on Supplier Price Alerts.

SSCT Issues Call For Papers
The Southern Society of Coatings Technology (SSCT) has issued a call for papers for its 2009 Annual Meeting and Technical Conference ... More

FSCT Announces Staff Changes
FSCT President Yasmin Sayed-Sweet has announced that Joe Pontoski has resigned as FSCT Executive Director effective July 8, 2008 ... More