DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman has announced that the company is being streamlined to focus on four emerging trends: to meet the demand for food, protecting people and the environment, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and capitalizing on the growth of emerging markets.
Atlas Material Testing Technology now offers a complete portfolio of testing services to evaluate the performance, durability and reliability of solar cells and modules. Atlas' ISO 17025 accredited laboratory in Phoenix, AZ, offers testing programs for full-scale PV arrays, BIPV, complete modules and individual PV cells in a confidential and secure test site.
Specialty chemicals supplier Cognis has announced that Klaus Edelmann will leave the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on Oct. 1, 2009, and become a member of the supervisory board. His designated successor as CFO is Marco Panichi.
CPS Color, a leading supplier of advanced tinting systems, has strengthened its total solution approach in Poland by having one partner for equipment and colorants.
Holliday Pigments’ Managing Director, Glyn Jagger, has been given the added responsibility of Director of Operations Europe at parent company, Rockwood Pigments.
A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change orientation.
The global market for functional and barrier coatings for paper and board was valued at $3,778 million in 2007, growing at 3.1 percent, and is expected to reach $4,561 million by 2014.
The University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. and the University of Puerto Rico have granted an international, nonexclusive license for a portfolio of glow-in-the-dark pigments that can be designed to emit light in any color of the visible spectrum for nearly a day.