The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) is exploring divestiture options for its Clear Lake Operations acrylic acid and esters and UCAR Emulsion Systems specialty latex business in North America.
C.L. Hauthaway & Sons Corp., Lynn, MA, and Interpolymer Corp., Canton, MA, will collaborate in marketing Hauthaway’s line of Hauthane® polyurethane dispersions to the architectural and industrial coatings markets in Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced a new distribution network in the United States and Canada for the full line of Rockwood Pigments’ products, including Elementis’ pigments products, which Rockwood acquired in 2007.
Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., has received approval from China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection for environmental impact assessments (EIA) for plans to build a 100,000 MTPA liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 MTPA glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.
In a move designed to better serve its global customers for composite resins, Reichhold has announced plans to expand into the fast-growing Chinese market and will build a resin factory near Tianjin, China.
Bayer MaterialScience has celebrated the startup of a new 20,000-tons-per-year facility for polyurethane dispersions (PUD) at the Bayer Integrated Site in Shanghai.
Following its successful June 2008 premiere, the next American Coatings Show & Conference will take place April 12-15, 2010, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC.
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