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Top Industry News            March 29, 2009 Issue

NACE Conference Features High-Speed Opening
The annual conference for NACE International, CORROSION 2009, welcomed more than 4,500 attendees ... More

Nanotechnology Conference Includes Clive Willis
Clive Willis, President of CWIC Inc., will make a keynote presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry ... More

Acquisition Action Report

ChemInstruments Acquires Line of Angle Meters
ChemInstruments has acquired the manufacturing and distribution rights to the CAM-Plus contact angle meters formerly produced by the Tantec Group ... More

The People File

Evonik Appoints New Head of Colorants Product Line
Effective April 1, 2009, Matthias Creutz will take over as head of the Colorants Product Line of Evonik Industries ... More

Business Barometer

ALTANA Records Decline in Sales for 2008
The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA recorded a slight decline in sales and earnings for the business year 2008 ... More

Company Portfolio

KW Plastics Recognized for Recycling Initiative
KW Plastics, an affiliate of KW Container, has received the GPEC 2009 Plastics Recycling Technologies and Applications award ... More

New Name for Sherwin-Williams' Protective & Marine Coatings
Sherwin-Williams has announced the newly named Protective & Marine Coatings group ... More

Atlas^® Offers New Services for Solar Energy Market
Atlas Material Testing Technology is offering two new services focused on the solar market ... More

INTERPOLYMER Opens Acrylic Polymers Facility in China
INTERPOLYMER GmbH has announced that production of waterborne styrene-acrylic dispersions, acrylic solutions and wax dispersions has started in a new facility in Nanjing, China ... More

Bayer MaterialScience Builds Facility in India 
Bayer MaterialScience is investing EUR 20 million in a new aromatic and aliphatic polyisocyanate manufacturing facility ... More

Plastican Plans Major Investment
Plastican will invest significant capital this year and next to increase production of its line of Twist & Lock easy-open rigid plastic containers ... More

Supplier Price Alerts

Dow to Raise Prices of Glycol Ethers Products
Dow Europe GmbH will raise prices in Europe effective April 1, 2009, or as contracts allow, for products in the Glycol Ethers portfolio ... More

Nano News

RNT Adds New Representation for Europe and Israel
Reactive NanoTechnologies Inc. has reached agreements with three new manufacturer's representative companies to extend its sales reach in Europe and Israel ... More

Meetings, Courses and Other Events

Brookfield Offers Viscometer and Rheometer Training
Brookfield is offering two courses that provide users of Brookfield instrumentation with the hands-on knowledge to get the most out of their viscosity test methods ... More

ASME B46 Committee Sponsors Free Seminar 
The ASME B46 committee will hold a free half-day seminar ... More

Coatings Research Institute Offers Short Courses
The Coatings Research Institute of Eastern Michigan University has announced several professional development courses ... More

PRA Sponsors Architectural Coatings Conference
PRA is offering a new conference, Architectural Coatings for the Green Age ... More