Articles Tagged with ''North America''

Coatings manufacturer Duralar Technologies has established its U.S. headquarters in the Tucson region of Arizona.

Effective April 15, 2014, or as contracts allow, Arkema Coating Resins will increase pricing on solventborne polyesters and alkyds sold in North America.

BASF Corp. has named four distributors with territorial exclusivity for the company’s distribution sales channel for the Diols and Polyalcohols product lines BASF offers to the coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) markets in North America.

Dow Polyurethanes, a business of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), will increase its polyol and copolymer capacity at its Freeport, TX, facilities as a result of debottlenecking.

The Sherwin-Williams Co. has completed the acquisition of the U.S./Canada business of Consorcio Comex S.A. de C.V.

BASF announced plans to build a Polyurethane Systems House in Geismar, LA.

U.S. demand for coatings is forecast to rise 4.2 percent annually to 1.5 billion gallons in 2017, valued at $30.6 billion.

Bayer MaterialScience LLC has agreed to sell its global powder polyester resins business and its U.S.-based liquid polyester resins merchant business to Stepan Co. of Northfield, IL.

Evonik Corp. has extended its contract with Georgia-based distribution company Lintech International LLC to expand distribution of its Coatings & Adhesive Resins Business Line product, DEGALAN^®, to customers on the West Coast.

Huntsman Corp., The Woodlands, TX, announced a combined investment of $135 million at two of its world-scale methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) manufacturing facilities.