Top Industry News                                 August 3, 2008 Issue

Hydraulic Institute Releases Pumping Systems Guidebook
Pump Systems Matter™ and the Hydraulic Institute are releasing a new reference, "Optimizing Pumping Systems: A Guide to Improved Efficiency, Reliability, and Profitability" ... More

Acquisition Action Report

Bayer MaterialScience LLC Purchases Business From Stepan Co.
Bayer MaterialScience LLC has purchased the pour-in-place, spray and molded polyurethane-foam-systems business of the Stepan Co. in the United States, Canada, South America and Mexico ... More 

Dover Chemical Corp. Promotes Jack Teat and Chuck Fletcher
Dover Chemical Corp. President Dwain S. Colvin has appointed Jack Teat to Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing and Chuck Fletcher to Vice President, Commercial Development ... More

Buckman Laboratories Announces Changes in its Marketing Department
Buckman Laboratories has appointed Lela Gerald to be the new Director of Marketing Communications ... More 

Business Barometer

AkzoNobel Releases Second-Quarter Results, Lowers Outlook For 2008
AkzoNobel has released it second-quarter 2008 results, reporting a six-percent decrease in net income before fair value adjustments compared to 2007 second-quarter results ... More 

Tronox Inc. Reports Preliminary Second-Quarter Earnings
Tronox Inc. has reported a preliminary loss from continuing operations for the 2008 second quarter of $29.9 million ... More

Dow Epoxy Systems Earns Germanischer Lloyd Certification For AIRSTONE™
Dow Epoxy Systems has attained Germanischer Lloyd (GL) certification for its entire line of AIRSTONE™ Systems for Wind Energy ... More 

DuPont Venture Opens R&D Center in Russia
DuPont Russian Coatings LLC has opened a technical center in Russia dedicated to the development of high-performance automotive coatings ... More 

European Parliament to Include IPBC as an Active Substance in Annex I
Troy Corp. has been notified of the Annex 1 listing of IPBC, as published on July 29, 2008, in the Official Journal of the European Union ... More 

Siegwerk Reacts to Rising Energy and Raw Material Costs in Europe
Due to escalating costs in raw materials, energy and transportation in Europe, caused in part by restrictions placed by the Chinese government in preparation for the Olympic Games, the ink manufacturer Siegwerk is increasing prices ... More  

Wacker Polymers, L.P. Announces Price Increase
Effective Aug. 15, 2008, Wacker Polymers, L.P. will implement a price increase of $0.04 per wet pound on all prices for vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer and vinyl acetate vinyl chloride dispersions sold in the Americas region ... More 

BASF Announces Price Increase for Acrylic Monomers in North America
Effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices on its acrylic monomers sold in the United States, Canada and Mexico ... More

Dow Reichhold Increases Price for Latexes in North America
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex has announced a price increase of U.S. $0.06/wet pound for all styrene butadiene specialty latex products sold in North America and an increase of U.S. $0.03/wet pound for all other latexes ... More 

Association News 

George M. Whitesides to Deliver Pittcon 2009 Plenary Lecture
George M. Whitesides of Harvard University will be the Plenary Speaker at Pittcon 2009 ... More

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