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.
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.
Xiao Yu Tong, Chairman of Shanghai FOPOL Chem-Tech Industry Co. Ltd., has announced the recent opening of a sales, marketing, distribution and M&A office in the United States.
As part of PPG Industries’ acquisition of the North American architectural coatings business of AkzoNobel, Scott B. Sinetar, Vice President, PPG Architectural Coatings, North America, is set to lead the combined architectural coatings business.
