The Valspar Corp. has reported its results for the second quarter ended May 1, 2009. Second-quarter sales totaled $668.4 million, a 20.1 percent decline from the second quarter of 2008.
A global industry leader in biocides has emerged as two of the foremost biocide companies, Dow Biocides and Rohm and Haas Advanced Materials, have been combined.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced the approval and availability of the newly revised American National Standard ANSI/ASSE Z490.1-2009 “Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health and Environmental Training.”
Cognis has opened an affiliate in Mumbai, India. The new affiliate, Cognis India, will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cognis Group and will operate under the name of Cognis Specialty Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.
Tikkurila, which is responsible for Kemira's paints and coatings business, has acquired the remaining 30 percent of the shares in two St. Petersburg, Russia-based paint companies from their founders and previous management.
According to the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, coating biocide consumption in Asia was some 30 million pounds, as supplied, worth $174 million in 2008.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.
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