BASEL, Switzerland - EFKA Additives, a member of the Ciba Specialty Chemicals group since 2001, has been awarded with the prestigious "Erasmus Award 2005 for competitive and innovative organizations" by the Rotterdam School of Management of the Erasmus University, the Netherlands.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Degussa's AEROSIL® business line commenced production in October of fumed alumina and cationic-silica dispersions at its North American dispersion plant in Mobile, Ala.
ARNHEM, the Netherlands - Akzo Nobel is set to become one of the leading suppliers to the Ukrainian decorative-paint market after signing an agreement to acquire a 51-percent controlling share in the coatings activities of Khimrezerv.
CINCINNATI - The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers' Association awarded its 2005 Environmental, Health, Safety and Security Achievement Award to Sun Chemical Corp.'s pigment manufacturing facilities in Muskegon, Mich., and Bushy Park, S.C.
PHILADELPHIA - Rohm and Haas Company announced restructuring initiatives to further improve the efficiency of its manufacturing network in Europe across several chemical businesses and its Electronic Materials business.
Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Monheim, Germany, and Golden Hope Plantations Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, have formally agreed to expand the scope of their existing joint venture with the transfer of Cognis' global oleochemicals and plastics technology businesses.
The National Paint & Coatings Association (NPCA) has announced its officers and board of directors for 2006. The individuals were elected and approved by NPCA's current board of directors during the association's annual meeting in Cleveland on Oct. 23.
Following a multimillion-dollar capacity-expansion project, ANGUS Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., is positioned to fully satisfy growing market demand for AMP-95™ dispersant (2-Amino-2-Methyl-1-Propanol), a multipurpose additive used in a variety of paint and coatings formulations.
Signing of the UV/EB protocol for the European printing and coating industries during the opening session of the RadTech Europe 2005 conference held in Barcelona in October is the culmination of collaborative work originally initiated in 1995 between German and British health and safety organizations for the printing industry.
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