Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC (CD&R) and CVC Capital Partners have announced a definitive agreement for CD&R to acquire a 42.5-percent ownership interest in Univar, a global distributor of commodity and specialty chemicals to a broad array of end markets.
A former employee of Valspar Corp., Minneapolis, MN, has admitted to stealing formulas and information from the company with plans to take them to China and sell to a competitor.
In terms of sheer volume, the United States dominated the rest of the world in nanotech funding and new patents last year, as U.S. Government funding, corporate spending and venture capital investment in nanotech collectively reached $6.4 billion in 2009. But according to a new report from Lux Research, countries such as China and Russia launched new challenges to U.S. dominance in 2009, while smaller players such as Japan, Germany and South Korea surpassed the United States in terms of commercializing nanotechnology and products.
Excalibur Paint and Coatings, Ltd. announced the approval by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) of its Aqua–Thane™ (patent pending) low-VOC, 2K acrylic waterborne polyurethane topcoat and OZWBP Series waterborne three-component organic zinc rich epoxy primer for use on bridges exposed to severely corrosive conditions.
Brookfield is offering two courses that provide users of Brookfield instrumentation with the hands-on knowledge to get the most out of their viscosity test methods.
The Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, OH, has closed a definitive agreement to acquire Becker Industrial Products AB, a subsidiary of AB Wilh. Becker based in Sweden, which engages in the industrial wood coatings business.
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