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.
The Powder Coating Institute and the Chemical Coaters Association International will hold two regional events in 2009 in an effort to reach out to targeted market segments along with general industrial finishing markets.
The European Coatings Show and European Coatings Congress 2009 is set to take place March 30 to April 2, 2009, at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany.
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