Two new adhesive and sealant products for the industrial assembly and maintenance market address manufacturing needs for materials with greater performance and efficiency, as well as delivering on enhanced design options and cost-in-use savings.
Designed for bonding a wide range of metals, toughened epoxy and acrylic structural adhesives can provide the strength and durability needed to replace welds, spot welds and mechanical fasteners in a wide variety of industrial applications.
Carbon black producer Orion Engineered Carbons S.A., Senningerberg, Luxembourg, will expand production capacity at its Norcarb Engineered Carbons AB plant in Malmö, Sweden.
The ChemQuest Group Inc., a business strategy firm in specialty chemicals, and the Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) jointly announced that the 2015-2019 Water Based Adhesives in North America Market Report is now available for purchase through the ASC storefront.
Innovative Chemical Products (ICP Group) announced the acquisition of MinusNine Technologies, a formulator and manufacturer of UV/EB coatings, adhesives, primers and specialty products for graphic arts and industrial applications.
AkzoNobel and Atul have announced their intention to jointly invest in the production of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India, which will include setting up an MCA plant at Atul's facility in Gujarat.
According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, the global consumption of coatings, adhesives, sealants and inks (CASI) was 54.1 million tons in 2014 worth $182.6 billion.
PPG Industries has completed its acquisition of a majority interest in the aerospace and automotive sealants and adhesives business of Le Joint Français (LJF), a long-term licensee of PPG’s aerospace sealant technology.
