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Global titanium dioxide (TiO2) demand is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 3.5 percent, reaching 6.79 million tonnes by 2016.

The 2009 Thermo Scientific Spectroscopy User Meeting will take place Sept. 14-15, 2009, in Stratford, UK.

Industrial Nanotech Inc. has announced that the company's sales in June of 2009 were $100,552, more than double the revenues of June 2008, a year when annual revenues were $1,424,036.

Andrea Valenti has been appointed Global Oilfield Chemicals and Coatings Business Manager for Eliokem.

Dover Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of ICC Industries Inc., now has polyisobutylene succinic anhydride (PIBSA) and derivative products in commercial production at its Hammond, IN, facility.

TZMI Congress 2009, Asia in Focus, will be held Oct. 21-23, 2009, at the Raffles City Convention Center Singapore.

As part of ongoing global restructuring initiatives, Bayer MaterialScience LLC has announced the closure of its coatings, adhesives and specialties (CAS) resins operations in New Martinsville, WV.

3M has announced second-quarter earnings of $1.12 per share on sales of $5.7 billion, with operating income margins of 20.8 percent.

PPG Industries reported sales for the second quarter of $3.1 billion, a decline of 30 percent versus the prior year’s second quarter, including a 6 percent decline resulting from a business divestiture in 2008.

Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. has announced that its new $20 million isobutylene (IBL) production facility, located at the Maeam site in South Korea, has been successfully commissioned and is now fully in production.