SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT) has entered into a distribution agreement with Itochu Plastics Inc., part of the Itochu group, to distribute throughout Asia commercially produced specialty multi-wall and single-wall carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube inks, pastes and dispersions.
On June 19, 2012, Evonik Industries held a ground-breaking ceremony for new production plants for the manufacture of isophorone and isophorone diamine in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP).
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, has announced the appointment of Jacques Geenen as K-FLEX®Technical Sales Manager for Europe.
DKSH’s Business Unit Performance Materials, a distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients, has invested in a coatings innovation center in Bangkok, Thailand.
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has announced it is raising prices by an average of 2 to 10 percent on all its liquid, powder and electrocoat (E-coat) products in the Asia/Pacific region, effective April 1 or as permissible by contract.
WACKER, the Munich-based chemicals group, has successfully completed the expansion and relocation of its technical laboratories and offices in South Korea and inaugurated the upgraded technical center, with integrated training facility, near Seoul, South Korea. Additionally, Wacker Chemie AG announced it is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around EUR 40 million in building two new production facilities at its Nanjing site in China.
The Asia Pacific (APAC) decorative coatings market has seen steady progress since 2010, outperforming the global decorative coatings market in volume and value. This surge in volume can be explained by the heavy investments in infrastructure developments by populous countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
