The partners in the Tiwest joint venture - Tronox Western Australia Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Tronox Inc., and Yalgoo Minerals Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Limited - have announced plans for the expansion of the Tiwest titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment plant in Kwinana, Australia.
Vertec BioSolvents has announced that its project, “Biosolvents for Coatings, Resins and Biobased Materials,” won a major two-year grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced that it will directly sell its microbalances, digital recording balances, thermogravimetric analyzers and dynamic contact angle analyzers through its subsidiaries in Austria, the Benelux region, France, Germany and the UK.
Soliant LLC has been awarded the Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC®) 2008 Achievement Award for “Enabling Technologies in Processes and Procedures” for developing Fluorex® bright film.
The 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Anti-Microbial Nanocoatings Excellence in Research Award is being presented to Germany-based Bioni CS GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology for their joint effort in developing an environmentally friendly, VOC-free coating system based on nanotechnology – Bioni Hygienic®.
Dow Biocides, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., has announced it will increase its U.S. production capacity for glutaraldehyde by approximately 60 percent.
Micro Powders Inc. has appointed Cincinnati-based Archway Sales (formerly Deeks & Co.) as its exclusive agent in the Ohio territory to represent its product line of high-performance wax additives.
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