Wacker Chemie AG has bestowed this year’s Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on Christian Daniels, John Boylan and Bruce Gruber. The WACKER researchers have developed two novel dispersions based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymers.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has recognized OMNOVA Solutions’ Global Technology Center in Akron, OH, and specialty chemicals facilities in Green Bay, WI, Fitchburg, MA, and Calhoun, GA, with Certificates of Excellence for their safety achievements in 2011.
OMNOVA Solutions’ Green Bay, WI, paper chemicals facility was presented with a Return on Environment Award from General Electric’s (GE) Power & Water division for OMNOVA’s use of excess capacity in the plant’s reverse osmosis (RO) system to supply water to the boiler system.
PCT Engineered Systems, a manufacturing solutions provider that develops and implements automated systems and BroadBeam electron beam technology, has been awarded the Better Business Bureau’s annual Integrity Award.
The Lubrizol Corp. won a Ringier Technology Innovation Award at the ninth annual China Green Coatings Summit held May 15-16, at the Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel in Shanghai, China.
Air Products has won a 2012 Ringier Coatings Technology Innovation Award for its new Airase™ 8070 deaerator, a high-performance, siloxane polyether-based deaerator for controlling microfoam and pinholes in waterborne coatings, especially those applied with high-speed techniques such as airless or air-assisted spray.
HRL Labs LLC, Malibu, CA, developed a new UV photopolymerization technique to create or “architect” microlattice materials in a rapid, scalable fashion.
