Michael Molnar, Chief Manufacturing Officer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the U.S. Department of Commerce, delivered his first public address in this new position at the inaugural Interactive Manufacturing Experience (imX) industry summit in Las Vegas.
Plasticolors Inc., a custom colorant and chemical dispersions manufacturer for the thermoset plastics and coatings industries, recently appointed Andrew Locy as Chemist within the Coatings Technical Group.
The Performance Monomers business of The Dow Chemical Co. announced that capacity for the production of crude acrylic acid (CAA) at its Böhlen, Germany, facility has expanded by 25 percent.
Caterpillar Inc. has selected PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business as the sole heavy-duty equipment coatings supplier for a new motor grader assembly plant in North Little Rock, AK.
The U.S. EPA last month made significant changes to its Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), increasing reporting responsibilities under the newly named Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule.