Breaking News

RSS

WEST PATERSON, NJ - Cytec Industries Inc. has announced plans to increase the capacity for RESYDROL® water-based alkyds at the company’s Wallingford, CT, production facility. Current plans are for the

DSMNeoResins+ has entered into an agreement with Germany-based Daikin Chemical Europe GmbH in which DSM NeoResins+ will distribute Daikin’s Zeffle® range of coatings resins exclusively throughout Europe.

PPG Industries is planning to build its first manufacturing plant in Russia. The company has signed an investment agreement with the administration of the Kaluga Region, Russia, to build an automotive coatings and industrial coatings plant about 70 kilometers southwest of Moscow.

In a 4-0 decision, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has overturned a verdict against three former lead paint producers.

PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has published a new guide specification for its liquid and powder coil and extrusion coatings.

Myers Engineering has added Federico Robles to its sales team.

FSCT President Yasmin Sayed-Sweet has announced that Joe Pontoski has resigned as FSCT Executive Director effective July 8, 2008.

Becker Industrie, an industrial paint specialist, has further expanded its business by setting up a subsidiary in the state of Ras Al Khaimah in the U.A.E.

The best papers presented at the RadTech 2008 Conference and Exhibition in Chicago have been announced.

With its first acquisition in China, specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is expanding the Asian business of its Inorganic Pigments business unit.