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.
NanoHorizons Inc., maker of SmartSilver™ antimicrobial additives for textile, health care and industrial applications, has completed its planned $3.5 million second-phase funding from the company’s spring 2008 Series B preferred equity offering.
Dr. Virinder K. Moudgil, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost for Oakland University, has announced the launch of the new NanoTech Research & Development Institute on the Oakland University campus in Rochester, MI.
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany, has given its worldwide suppliers an alternative choice of xenon testing equipment by authorizing the use of the Q-Sun Xe-3 to meet three updated test methods.