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.
Elemica, a business-to-business supply chain execution network, has announced that client, The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), has won the 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award (PM100) from Managing Automation Media.
The 10th Asia Coatings Markets is set to take place on Sept. 29 – 30, 2009, at the Swissotel Merchant Court hotel in Singapore. The event is now open for registration.
Autonomic Materials, Inc. (AMI), a leader in self-healing technologies for coatings and related markets, will co-sponsor the Second International Conference on Self-Healing Materials (ICSHM).
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