Holliday Pigments’ Managing Director, Glyn Jagger, has been given the added responsibility of Director of Operations Europe at parent company, Rockwood Pigments.
A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change orientation.
The global market for functional and barrier coatings for paper and board was valued at $3,778 million in 2007, growing at 3.1 percent, and is expected to reach $4,561 million by 2014.
The University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. and the University of Puerto Rico have granted an international, nonexclusive license for a portfolio of glow-in-the-dark pigments that can be designed to emit light in any color of the visible spectrum for nearly a day.
Chemsultants International was recently awarded accreditation status by A2LA (the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation) to provide on-site calibration services complying with the widely recognized ASTM E4 Standard requirements.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently announced that the new Houston Dow Center (HDC), which opened in October 2008, has achieved LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) GOLD level certification.
Syrgis Performance Products (Syrgis), an international diversified group of fine and specialty chemical manufacturers, has announced the sale of H&S Chemical Co. Inc. (H&S) to Iofina Chemical LLC (Iofina), Covington, KY.
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