Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has opened a new manufacturing facility for pigment dispersions and on-site technical service labs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A new innovation center of the Consumer Specialties Business Unit (CS) at Evonik’s Goldschmidtstraße site has been certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).
Cells are very good at protecting their precious contents; as a result, it’s very difficult to penetrate their membrane walls to deliver drugs, nutrients or biosensors without damaging or destroying the cell. One effective way of doing so, discovered in 2008, is to use nanoparticles of pure gold, coated with a thin layer of a special polymer. But nobody knew exactly why this combination worked so well, or how it made it through the cell wall.
BASF has appointed Archway Sales Inc., St. Louis, MO, as a distributor for polyurethane chemicals to the coatings, adhesives and binders, sealants and elastomers (CASE) market in the Ohio Valley.
In order to strengthen its position in aliphatic isocyanates, Vencorex is extending its global footprint by establishing Vencorex BRAZIL (Vencorex Brasil Indústria e Comercio de Produtos Quimicos Ltda), São Paulo, Brazil.
The new Sherwin-Williams MIL-PRF-14105 High Heat finish is one of only four approved products available globally to meet this rigorous military standard, having received Army Research Lab (ARL) approval at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD.
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