Articles Tagged with ''Europe''

The Valspar Corp., a leading global manufacturer of paints and coatings, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Inver Holding S.r.l. (Inver Group), an industrial coatings manufacturer in Europe.

PPG Industries has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.

Brenntag Specialties Europe, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, has expanded its current cooperation with Evonik for the distribution of the Vestamid, Vestamid HT Plus, Trogamid, Vestodur and Vestamelt product groups in Scandinavia.

Oxea announced that it will increase list and off-list prices for trimethylolpropane and neopentylglycol. 

Coatings manufacturer Teknos Group Oy, Helsinki, Finland, has acquired the entire share capital of Estonia-based Kemiflora Kaubandus OÜ from AS Kemiflora.

In a move to strengthen distribution in Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavian markets, Perstorp AB has signed a distribution agreement with Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (NRC), Hamburg, Germany.

Spectris plc (Spectris), an instrumentation and controls company, has signed an agreement to acquire Analytical Spectral Devices Inc. (ASD), a manufacturer of near-infrared instrumentation solutions and applications for materials measurement and research.

DKSH, a market expansion services provider with a focus on Asia, has acquired the Swiss specialty chemicals distributor Staerkle & Nagler.

The Dow Chemical Co., Midland, MI, has increased its propylene glycol (PG) capacity by an additional 10 kilotons per annum (KTA) at its Stade, Germany, plant.

Whitford, producer of fluoropolymer coatings, has celebrated its move to a new facility in Manor Park, Runcorn, UK.