The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye.
OMNOVA Solutions announced that Anne Noonan is joining the company as President of the Performance Chemicals business segment, effective September 22, 2014.
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels has appointed Bill Perry as the new Director of the agency’s Directorate of Standards and Guidance, effective August 24, 2014.
Todd Werpy, Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s Senior Vice President, Research and Development, has received the 2014 American Chemical Society Affordable Green Chemistry award for his work in producing bio-based propylene glycol economically on a commercial scale.
Specialty chemicals group LANXESS is strengthening its production network in China to meet demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under construction in Ningbo, China.
Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corp., has increased capacity at its precipitated alumina trihydrate (ATH) plant in Bauxite, AR, by 30%.
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