The Lubrizol Corp. broke ground on its new additive plant in China, the centerpiece of its previously announced 10-year investment plan to upgrade operations and increase its global capacity in lubricant additives.
Specialty chemicals company Perstorp, a leading supplier of caprolactones and its derivatives, announced that its current investment to double the production capacity of its Warrington, UK, site is on track.
Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT), a technical symposium that is a partnership between PCI Magazine and the Chicago Society for Coatings Technology and Symco, was held October 5-6 in Lombard, IL.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) honored the discovery of fullerenes, the scientific achievement that gave birth to nanotechnology, as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a ceremony held at Rice University in Houston, TX, on October 11.
PolyGroup Inc. announced that its FIPOLDER FHP05080 and FHP05040 high-density, polyethylene-based microparticle powders comply with FDA regulation U.S. 21 CFR F.D.A. Part 177.1520 Clauses (c)(2.1) and (3.2) and NSF/ANSI Std. 51 (National Sanitation Foundation - Food Equipment Materials).
BWAY Holding Co., a North American supplier of rigid containers, has acquired Plastican Inc., a U.S. producer of injection-molded plastic containers, in a stock purchase transaction.
A wide range of performance and environmental innovations for PU coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers was showcased at the CPI Polyurethanes 2010 Technical Conference, held October 11-13, 2010, in Houston, TX.
During her first official visit to China, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian signed an agreement that formalizes the partnership between the United States and China on environmental protection.