Dow
Epoxy, a business group of The Dow Chemical Company, has named Shanghai
Chemical Industry Park as the selected site for its world-scale 150,000-MTPA
glycerin-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant and 100,000-MTPA liquid epoxy resins
(LER) plant.
Atlas has announced that its outdoor exposure site in
Sanary sur Mer in the Bandol region (south of France) received accreditation to
DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 in early April.
Akzo Nobel N.V., Arnhem, the Netherlands, confirmed
on Monday, June 18, 2007, that it has approached the board of Imperial Chemical
Industries PLC ("ICI") with a view to entering into discussions about
a possible cash offer for ICI. However, the approach has been rejected.
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc., and Rohm and Haas
Company announced a research collaboration that will work toward producing
plant-based alternatives to a petroleum-derived material used in thousands of
home and industrial products.
More
and more Canadians are experimenting with color on their walls. That’s the
finding of a recent survey by leading architectural paint brand PARA Paints in
polling its more than 400 paint dealers across the country.
A proposed new standard being developed by ASTM
International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and
Applications would provide the coatings industry with an industry-wide method
for evaluating the ability of an architectural paint system to block ink stains
from typical markers and writing instruments from bleeding through primer or
basecoat into a topcoat.
The
Lubrizol Corp. will expand its presence in China by investing approximately $40
million to build a facility in Songjiang, just outside of Shanghai.
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