Miller Paint Co. has elected to participate in the Smart Energy program from its natural gas supplier, NW Natural, to offset the natural gas usage at its Portland, OR, headquarters and retail outlets around the city.
Segetis Inc. has announced the appointment of Snehal Desai as Business Vice President, Cora Leibig as Director of Product and Application Development, and Steve Donen as Director of Process Engineering and Development.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Northeastern University have developed rapid template-assisted assembly of polymer blends in the nanoscale.
Select Biosciences has announced details for this year’s Advances in Synthetic Chemistry conference. The conference will take place April 16-17, 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Ciba, Basel, Switzerland, has reported that the company’s sales in local currencies were maintained at 2007 levels until late in the fourth quarter, where demand dropped sharply in many customer industries, notably plastics and coatings for the automotive and construction industries, as the economic downturn took effect.
Clariant has announced sales of CHF 8.1 billion for the full year 2008 compared to CHF 8.5 billion in 2007. This translates into a 1 percent growth in local currency and a 5 percent decline in CHF.
In compliance with the new EU REACH chemicals regulation, Evonik Industries has successfully registered synthetic amorphous silica with the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki, Finland.