As part of a consistent strategic and operative alignment, the Division Effect Pigments (ECKART Group) of ALTANA Chemie AG, Wesel, Germany, will be closing the production site for aluminum pastes at Porto Marghera near Venice, Italy, at the end of 2006 and relocating production to the existing European sites.
Tronox Incorporated announced that the Tiwest synthetic rutile plant in Chandala, Western Australia, restarted production, and its daily production has returned to pre-shutdown levels.
CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry, has published a "Code of Practice for Coated Articles Where the Food Contact Layer Is a Coating."
The Pittsburgh Conference announced the recipients of 12 prestigious annual awards that recognize the significant contributions of leaders in the fields of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.
Coatings customers in Brazil have named Cytec Industries Inc. as the best supplier of UV-curable raw materials for the second time in a row, according to a biennial survey conducted by Tintas & Vernizes, a coatings magazine in Latin America.
The grand-opening ceremony for the new $18 million manufacturing facility for Stahl Coatings and Fine Chemicals (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. took place on September 8, 2006, immediately following the All China Leather Fair.
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