Nine individuals will receive Industry Statesman Awards during the National Paint & Coatings Association's (NPCA) 2006 Annual Meeting in Nashville, Oct. 29-31.
DuPont has entered a research agreement with Affinergy, Inc., a Duke University spinout, to assist in the company's research and development of a new line of bio-based products for its BioSurfaces business.
As part of a consistent strategic and operative alignment, the Division Effect Pigments (ECKART Group) of ALTANA Chemie AG, Wesel, Germany, is concentrating on realizing synergy potentials and on improving the structures within the division.
CEPE, the European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists'
Colours Industry, Brussels, Belgium, has published a "Code of
Practice for Coated Articles Where the Food Contact Layer Is a
Coating."
Dow Polyurethanes, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., has successfully completed preliminary development of natural oil polyols (NOPs) for urethane formulations and will begin product sampling with a select group of customers immediately.
Saiden Technologies, a manufacture of specialty polymers adhesives and coatings, is announcing the expansion of the current facility located in Sanford, N.C.
OMNOVA Solutions, Fairlawn, Ohio, has completed the sale of its GenFlex Building Products business to Firestone Building Products Company, a division of BFS Diversified Products, LLC.
"Nanotechnology is a key to new product properties, and therefore to
new and profitable markets." With these words, Dr. Manfred Spindler,
member of the management board of Degussa AG, opened the recent
NanoTech Day at the specialty chemicals company in Hanau-Wolfgang,
Germany.
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