PNC, a financial services institution based in Pittsburgh, has announced two senior secured financing facilities totalling $41.5 million for Fabpro Oriented Polymers and ParaChem Southern Inc.
Dow Coating Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., presented a paper on Designed Diffusion (DD) technology titled “Synergistic Waterborne Acrylic Urethane Systems” at the European Coatings Conference held in Berlin, Germany.
PPG Industries was selected to receive a $741,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support the development of materials and automation processes for wind-blade manufacturing.
Air Products has opened its new specialty amines plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. The facility will support customers in the polyurethane additives and epoxy markets.
At the Goldman Sachs Industrials Conference, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman outlined how DuPont expects to deliver 20 percent compound annual earnings growth for the 2009-2012 period.
Move over neutral color schemes. Livelier hues will be making a comeback in home décor in 2010-2011, and it’s all about using color as a mood lifter in the midst of challenging times, according to leading Canadian paint brand Sico Paints.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes and understand other fundamental interactions between molecules and nanotubes.
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