In June, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco joined executives from Grupo IMSA, a multinational metal-processing company headquartered in Kalama, Wash., to announce the location of Grupo IMSA subsidiary, Steelscape, at the Port of Shreveport-Bossier.
International technology group Andritz has signed an agreement to buy the Filtration Business Unit of the international NETZSCH Group, based in Germany.
Elementis plc, following a Pigments business manufacturing restructuring review, will scale down production at its Elementis Pigments production plant at East St Louis, Ill., effective immediately. Around 100 jobs will be affected.
The Coating Wood and Wood Composites conference, which will take place September 25-27, 2005, at the Marriott Charlotte Executive Park, Charlotte, N.C., is specifically designed to explore the changing nature of wood and wood composites, and the coatings used on these materials.