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Top Industry News                                July 21, 2008 Issue

Study Shows Increased Paint Sales in DIY Market
According to a recent study by Longbow Research, Independence, OH, the month of June showed an improvement in architectural paint sales at big-box and mass-merchant retailers as do-it-yourself (DIY) customers returned ... More 

Acquisition Action Report

Nilfisk CFM Gets New Director of Sales
Nilfisk CFM, an industrial vacuum manufacturer, has appointed Joe Wintsch to be its new Director of Sales for North America ... More 

Business Barometer

The Sherwin-Williams Co. Reports Results
The Sherwin-Williams Co. has announced its financial results for the second quarter and first six months ending June 30, 2008 ... More 

Wacker Discontinues Production of PIOLOFORM^®
Wacker Chemie AG will discontinue the production of its PIOLOFORM^® polymer binders effective Sept. 30, 2008 ... More

Cray Valley's Beaumont Plant Receives ISO Certification
Cray Valley has received ISO 9001:2000 registration for its Sartomer C5 resins plant in Beaumont, TX, from the British Standards Institute, Reston, VA ... More

Viachem Ltd. and Raybo Chemical Co. Tap New Market Opportunities
Raybo Chemical Co., a manufacturer of specialty additives including rust inhibitors, dispersants and surface modifiers, has teamed up with Viachem Ltd., a chemical sales and distribution company serving the paint and coatings, ink, and adhesives markets ... More

Rockwood Pigments Announces Distribution Agreement with Brenntag Canada
Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced the appointment of Brenntag Canada Specialties Group (formerly St. Lawrence Chemical) as a distributor for the Canadian market ... More

Gelest Doubles Production Capacity
Gelest Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of specialty organosilicon and other group IV organometalics, has recently completed the final phase of a multi-year project to double the capacity of its Morrisville, PA, headquarters and production plant ... More 

Dow Reichhold Relocates Offices in Malaysia
Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex has announced the relocation of its offices in Penang, Malaysia ... More 

Evonik Increases VESTANAT^® Crosslinker Pricing
Evonik Degussa Corp.'s Coatings and Additives Business Unit will increase prices by at least 10 percent for VESTANAT^® crosslinkers in the United States ... More

New Pricing For CCP Coatings and Powder Resins
Effective on orders shipped on or after Aug. 15, 2008, or as contracts allow, Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) will implement a 5- to 10-percent price increase for all coatings and powder resins products ... More

WACKER POLYMERS Raises Prices for Dispersions in Europe
WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices in Europe for AIRFLEX^®, VINAC^®, FLEXBOND^® and FLEXCRYL^® dispersions ... More 

UOP Announces Price Increase
UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has announced a price increase of up to 15 percent for its molecular sieve adsorbents and activated aluminas ... More 

Tronox Announces Increase in TiO2 Price in Europe
Tronox Inc., on behalf of its subsidiary companies, has announced that the price for all TRONOX^® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades sold in Europe will increase by EUR 80 per tonne ... More

Eliokem Announces North American Price Increase
Eliokem has announced a price increase across the range of all its coatings resins, Pliolite^®, Plioway^® and Pliotec^® ... More 

DOW Raises Price of VAM
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) has announced that effective Aug. 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

Southern Clay Products Increases Price of Additives
Effective Aug. 1, 2008, or as contracts allow, Southern Clay Products Inc. (SCP) will increase the price of its waterborne rheological additives, castors and wax derivatives by 5 to 15 percent ... More 

FutureCoat! Speaker to Address REACH in the U.S.
The Keynote Address at FutureCoat! 2008 will be given by John Mikan, President of Experien Health Sciences Inc ... More 

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