The Germany-based specialty chemicals producer TRONOX Pigments GmbH announced that its capacities are fully utilized. In a year-on-year comparison, volumes in the first quarter of 2010 are up by over 80 percent.
As part of its ongoing commitment to develop high-performance products that are eco-friendly, Dunn-Edwards has launched Enso™, a premium, low-odor, zero-VOC paint.
Axium Inc., a robotics solution provider, has been selected by ABB Robotics as the company’s strategic channel partner for mixed-load palletizing solutions in North America.
Innospec Inc., Newark, DE, has announced the launch of a major new collaborative venture with Huntsman Corp., The Woodlands, TX, in the personal-care market.
Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel) announced its results for the first quarter of 2010, with improved volumes in most businesses underpinning revenue growth of 6 percent. Continued margin management and cost-reduction programs also contributed to EBITDA growth of 38 percent. The one-year rolling EBITDA margin reached 13.6 percent.
K. Hiroshi (Hiro) Fujimoto, 87, of Naples, FL and West Bloomfield, MI, died on Thursday, April 8, 2010, at Avow Hospice. He was born in Beverly Hills, CA, on April 28, 1922, to Kiyoji and Jue Fujimoto.
Paint and coatings researchers seeking better use of the processing power of multicore computer systems, in addition to an easy way to migrate existing applications to multi-processor architectures, can now download the new NAG Library for SMP and Multicore from Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
With federal initiatives on the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) as a starting point, ultraviolet and electron beam technologies (UV&EB) will be the focus of a special session at RadTech 2010, held May 24-26, at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.
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