AkzoNobel is realigning its Performance Coatings and Specialty Chemicals portfolios, a move that will see the launch of two new business units and the merger of two others.
Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) has introduced legislation targeted to help America combat the hidden destruction of critical energy industry infrastructure.
A one-day international technical meeting of the Filtration Society, Filter Media 4: Cost-Effective Solutions, is being held Nov. 19, 2009, in Chester, UK.
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions.
Royal DSM N.V. has regained its number one position in the chemical industry sector in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. AkzoNobel placed second in the sector with a score of 87 percent, two percent behind DSM.
The Dow Chemical Co. has announced the formation of Dow Construction Chemicals, a new business within the Dow Advanced Materials portfolio that combines certain capabilities of legacy Rohm and Haas Co., acquired in April of 2009, and legacy Dow Wolff Cellulosics, formed in 2007.
H.B. Fuller Co. has settled its lawsuit with the former owners of the Roanoke Companies Group. As a result of the settlement, the company will receive a pre-tax cash payment in the amount $18.75 million.