Rohm and Haas Company celebrated the official groundbreaking of its new China Research and Development Center in Shanghai, with nearly 200 distinguished guests in attendance.
Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd. (PMSL), a leading industrial mechanical- and process-mixing optimization specialist, has announced availability of the world's largest mixing and process test lab for customers and contract facilities.
Fusion UV Systems, Inc., has been granted US patent 6,908,586 B1, "Free Radical Polymerization Method Having Reduced Premature Termination, Apparatus for Performing the Method, and Product Formed Thereby."
BASF Coatings is expanding its market presence in Africa. Starting immediately, BASF Coatings' automotive repair products in the Glasurit and Salcomix brands of refinish lines will be available in Ghana.
In June, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco joined executives from Grupo IMSA, a multinational metal-processing company headquartered in Kalama, Wash., to announce the location of Grupo IMSA subsidiary, Steelscape, at the Port of Shreveport-Bossier.
International technology group Andritz has signed an agreement to buy the Filtration Business Unit of the international NETZSCH Group, based in Germany.
Elementis plc, following a Pigments business manufacturing restructuring review, will scale down production at its Elementis Pigments production plant at East St Louis, Ill., effective immediately. Around 100 jobs will be affected.