Kemira
Coatings (Tikkurila), which is responsible for Kemira’s paints and coatings
business, has prepared a merger plan in which Tikkurila Paints Oy and Tikkurila
Coatings Oy will merge into their parent company, Tikkurila Oy.
Atlas
Material Testing Technology LLC has finalized an agreement to sell a majority
stake in the company to Industrial Growth Partners (IGP), a specialized
investment firm focused on middle-market industrial manufacturing and
manufacturing services businesses.
H.B.
Fuller Co. has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell the
entire stake in its automotive joint venture to the principal joint venture
partner, EMS CHEMIE Holding AG of Switzerland, for a purchase price of $80
million.
Syrgis
Performance Products has announced the acquisition of the organic peroxides
business from Norac Inc., a specialty chemical company with annual revenue of
more than $50 million.
The American Coatings Show (ACS) and Conference, an
all-new exhibition and conference for the coatings industry, will be held June
2-5, 2008, at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC.
Demand in the United States for color pigments,
including inorganic, organic and specialty types, is forecast to increase 4.4
percent per year to $3.8 billion in 2011.
Thermo
Fisher Scientific Inc. has signed an agreement with Edax, a business unit of
the Ametek Materials Analysis Division, to distribute its Electron Backscatter
Diffraction (EBSD) Systems.
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