The specialty chemicals group ALTANA increased sales by 5 percent to EUR 1.7 billion in the 2012 business year, achieving the company’s target level for the year.
Specialty chemicals company Perstorp Holding AB (Perstorp) has sold its formaldehyde technology and catalyst business, Formox AB, to Johnson Matthey Plc, a global specialty chemicals company and a leader in sustainable technologies.
Dr. Gordon P. Bierwagen of North Dakota State University’s Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials will receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2013.
DKSH’s Performance Materials business unit, a specialty chemicals distributor, and Synthomer, a supplier of emulsion polymers for coatings, construction chemicals, adhesives and technical textiles, have entered into a regional distribution partnership.
Resinate Materials Group Inc., a provider of polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) for the coatings, adhesives and sealants industries, has updated and expanded its product pipeline for 2013.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish an international partnership between New York State and the State of Israel, through a collaboration involving the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and the Israeli Industry Center for Research & Development (MATIMOP).
As part of a plan to expand its customer service offering, Hoover Container Solutions (Hoover), Houston, has completed construction of a new IBC tank cleaning services facility at its Houston, TX, facility.
AkzoNobel has announced its intention to invest a further EUR 65 million in China. The investment will be used to boost capacity and improve operational excellence at AkzoNobel's surface chemistry manufacturing sites in Boxing and Ningbo.
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