The Alliance for the Polyurethanes Industry (API) issued a call for papers and posters to be presented at the Polyurethanes Technical Conference and Trade Fair 2005, scheduled for Oct. 19-22, 2005, in Houston.
Akzo Nobel announced plans to sell its Coatings Resins business to Nuplex Industries Ltd. of New Zealand for 110 million euros, or approximately $137 million.
The Valspar Corp.'s board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to 2 million shares of the company's outstanding common stock, or 3% of the total of outstanding shares, over a 12-month period.
The Dow Chemical Co. and its affiliated companies in Europe announced the full resumption of acrylates production operations in Boehlen, Germany, and Clear Lake, Texas, where equipment failures caused sudden, unplanned outages in September.
Rohm and Haas Co. said it has received a $3.75-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program to develop new polymer technologies designed to reduce by as much as 30% the raw materials used to manufacture a variety of paint and coatings.
The EPA's recently published 2004 "Sector Strategies Performance Report" recognizes significant environmental progress made by the paint and coatings industry in the areas of reduced air emissions and environmental-management programs.
Bayer MaterialScience AG announces the start of construction of polyurethane and coatings raw materials production plants near Shanghai, with the plants scheduled to begin production in 2006.
DSM Eternal Resins, Kunshan, China, announced plans for a production expansion for polyester powder-coatings resins, with new capacity expected to go on stream in the second half of 2005.
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