Virtual reality, augmented reality, AI, robots and digitalization are some of the technological advances being used to help improve health and safety in the manufacturing industry. 

A new category of durable, high-tech, all-epoxy coating is dramatically increasing traction and improving safety in a wide range of slip and fall prone areas such as production floors, warehouse space, loading docks, platforms, ramps, and more.

Inkmaker Group announced that as of April 7, 2020 Inkmaker Shanghai will begin operating from a new 35,000-square-foot facility — double the size of its current factory space — to meet the demands due to the recent escalation in workload and orders.

Ross Vice President of Corporate Operations Joseph Martorana announced the successful move of the company’s India operations into a new facility.

Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette, announced that its large-scale facility for the commercial production of bio-based succinic acid has begun operations in Cassano Spinola, Italy.

Reactive Surfaces, Austin, TX, will open the doors of its new coatings manufacturing plant in Hattiesburg, MS, starting in July 2012.

Delaware Governor Jack A. Markell, DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara and Croda Inc. President Kevin Gallagher broke ground June 7, 2012, on construction of a $6 million landfill-gas-to-energy project at the Croda Atlas Point chemical manufacturing plant in New Castle, DE.