Birla Carbon was named the Pioneer Business for Sustainable Development 2018 at the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Business Opportunities for the Private Sector conference, which was held recently in Cairo.
LANXESS Corp. announced that Palmer Holland will become the exclusive distributor for Bayferrox® and Colortherm® brand inorganic pigments for the western United States.
Representatives of the LANXESS Inorganic Pigments (IPG) business unit recently welcomed a delegation from Ningbo Chemical Park, one of China’s largest and most modern facilities, to its headquarters in Cologne, Germany.
Burgess Pigment Co. has expanded the distribution territory of JNS-SmithChem to include Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New York State (except Buffalo) for its kaolin-based pigments.
Carbon black supplier Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire acetylene carbon black manufacturer Société du Noir d'Acétylène de l'Aubette, SAS.
Through targeted debottlenecking at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site, LANXESS has increased the product availability of its Bayferrox and Colortherm micronized red pigments by more than 5,000 metric tons per year.
Birla Carbon Spain, the carbon black manufacturer in the Iberian Peninsula, announced an investment of €5 million towards sustainability and energy efficiency projects, to increase its production from 80,000 to 95,000 tons per year.
