Clariant’s Functional Chemicals Division and XL Performance Chemicals, Dalton, GA, have embarked on a strategic alliance to comprehensively serve the $2.3 billion worldwide foam-control market.
Heucotech LTD of Fairless Hills, PA, has expanded its lab facilities with the addition of equipment to provide cyclic/prohesion and salt spray testing to support its NAFTA-based customers and Heubach’s Heucophos Anti-Corrosive product line.
PPG Industries’ Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) business has been awarded the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) Fleet Paint and Related Services contract.
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI), of the American Chemistry Council, has issued a call for papers and posters to be presented at the Polyurethanes 2009 Technical Conference on Oct. 5–7, 2009, at the Gaylord National in Fort Washington, MD.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced it has closed a definitive agreement to acquire Altax Sp. zo.o. Headquartered in Poznan, Poland, Altax is a leading innovator of protective wood-care coatings and serves multiple channels including industrial, professional and DIY.
Rohm and Haas Co. has reported fourth-quarter 2008 sales of $2,030 million, a 13 percent decrease over the same period in 2007, driven by accelerating market declines that impacted all businesses and regions except Salt.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to issue a one-year stay of enforcement for certain testing and certification requirements for manufacturers and importers of regulated products, including products intended for children 12 years old and younger.
Rohm and Haas Co. has reported fourth-quarter 2008 sales of $2,030 million, a 13 percent decrease over the same period in 2007, driven by accelerating market declines that impacted all businesses and regions except Salt.
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