JEOL USA, a supplier of electron microscopes for research and industrial problem solving, and the College of Microscopy, the education division of The McCrone Group, have announced an increased partnership and joint commitment to improving the study of microscopy.
PPG Industries will implement another business restructuring plan focused on further reducing its global cost structure. The restructuring will result in a reduction in PPG’s workforce by 2,500 workers.
Specialty chemical company Clariant is building a surfactants plant in Zhenjiang, Eastern China. The new facility is scheduled for production in the middle of 2009.
Bryan Kitchen has been appointed Global Supply Chain Leader for Dow Biocides and ANGUS Chemical Co., a business unit and wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., respectively.
Royal DSM N.V., a life sciences and materials sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has opened a new factory for waterborne acrylic resins in Waalwijk, the Netherlands.
The Dow Chemical Co. has reached agreements with Rohm and Haas and certain of its shareholders that permit Dow to close the acquisition on substantially altered financial terms by April 1, 2009.
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