Emerald Specialties Group, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has formed a team focused on digital applications, expanding its commercial and research and development (R&D) staff for Hilton Davis^® color and black dispersions.

WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer dispersions of the VINNAPAS^® brand in the Americas region.

P.T. Hutchins, an Azelis Americas company, has earned the 2015 Distributor of the Year Award from the Dispersions & Pigments division of BASF in North America.

Extensive testing demonstrates that this dispersion technology enables waterborne alkyds that offer a performance level significantly exceeding currently available waterborne alternatives and equal to – and in some cases better than – solventborne alkyds.

Consideration of not only a formulation, but also of the multitude of interactions between components is important when determining the proper dispersion equipment for the task.

Wacker Chemie AG has officially started up a new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at its Calvert City site in Kentucky.

Micro Powders Inc. (MPI) has appointed McCullough & Associates as its sales agent in the Southwest.

Alberdingk Boley Inc. has added the VANORA product line to its product portfolio. 

BASF announced the appointment of two new Senior Vice Presidents to oversee the company’s Dispersions & Pigments business in North America and the BASF Coatings business in North America.

WACKER POLYMERS is raising its prices for VINNAPAS^® vinyl acetate-ethylene and VINNOL^® ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions in the Americas.