Joan A. Schuller has been named General Manager for the North American region of Dow Coating Materials, the global architectural and industrial coatings business of The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow).
RUSNANO Deputy CEO Andrey Malyshev and Reijo Munther, Director, Materials Technology, of Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, signed a memorandum on standardization and regulation in nanotechnology at a recent Russian-Finnish roundtable.
The Dow Chemical Co. has announced that Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V., has been elected to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Inspired with the speed at which dolphins swim through the water compared to other aquatic life, Jonghwan Suhr of the University of Nevada, Reno, decided to mimic the dolphin’s skin using nanotechnology in order to make objects move more efficiently through the air.
NACE International, The Corrosion Society, will again offer the Coatings Assessment Management Forum, which will be open to all attendees of CORROSION 2010.
Despite the effects of the economic turmoil of 2009, Frost & Sullivan reports that South Africa's chemicals markets remained fairly robust last year, thanks mainly to significant investments in infrastructure leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The titanium dioxide producer TRONOX Pigments GmbH, Uerdingen, Germany, has used the insolvency process, brought on by its March 2009 bankruptcy filing, for a strategic reorientation.