Ferro, Mayfield Heights, OH, and Omya have extended their current distribution partnership in Austria and Switzerland for pigments used in coatings, construction, plastics, cosmetics and other industrial markets.
PPG Industries has partnered with ITECH Engineering School in Lyon, France, to help sponsor the first chemical engineering master’s degree program dedicated to paints and coatings in Europe.
Nordson Corp. has appointed Lukasz Krzywanski to be a Regional Sales Manager in Eastern Europe for the company’s Polymer Processing System range of melt stream components.
Axalta Coating Systems commissioned its new waterborne manufacturing facility in Wuppertal, Germany, nine months after ground was broken on the project.
At the beginning of May, the Chemistry of Advanced Materials council of the Top Sector Chemistry gave the green light for nine new projects in the Biobased Performance Materials (BPM) program. Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, together with 25 partners, will be focusing on materials made from plant-based raw materials.
Evonik Industries, one of the world's leading suppliers of methacrylate chemistry products, doubled its production capacities for VISIOMER® MAAH (methacrylic anhydride) at its site in Worms, Germany, in 2015.
