The Lomon Billions Board of Directors has approved an estimated $285 million investment in the construction of two new chloride titanium dioxide manufacturing lines at its existing chloride production site in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, China.
Faced with dramatic increases in the cost of Azo intermediates and related raw materials, Sun Chemical Performance Pigments will raise its global prices on Azo pigments, specialty pigments and their pigment preparations.
Cathay Industries USA Inc., Valparaiso, Indiana, announced that effective Jan. 1, 2018, The Chidley & Peto Co. will have additional territory as a regional distributor.
Tires that have reached the end of the road are being harvested for carbon black and used to produce powder coatings in a new cooperation between AkzoNobel and Dutch company Black Bear.