Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle-market specialty industrial, healthcare and financial services companies, announced the concurrent acquisition of Plasticolors Inc. and Evonik Industries’ Colortrend global colorants business to create Chromaflo Technologies.
Arkema Coating Resins, a business unit of Arkema, has announced the sale of the Peninsula Polymers business, a national distributor of coatings raw materials headquartered in North Kansas City, MO.
A movement to shift responsibility for spent products and packaging from taxpayers to the producers who design, make and sell them is growing both among leading corporations and state and local governments in the United States.
CVC Thermoset Specialties, an Emerald Performance Materials company, has appointed Kryll Advanced Importação e Exportação de Aditivos Ltda. as its distributor in Brazil for its full product line of specialty epoxy materials and reactive liquid polymer products.
Specialty chemicals company Perstorp and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC), a global Japanese chemical corporation, have signed a distribution agreement for MGC’s new co-polyester and its key raw material.
American Polymers Corp. (dba Polycoat Products), a leading manufacturer and custom formulator of high-performance protective polyurethanes, polyurea and polyaspartic coatings and linings, has welcomed two new additions to its California sales staff.
OMNOVA Solutions' Fitchburg, MA, specialty chemicals facility recently received an Environmental Merit Award from the New England Region One Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Oxea, a leading international manufacturer of oxo intermediates and oxo derivatives, has appointed the Rotterdam-based IMCD Group as its exclusive European distributor for its line of alkyl amines.