The Dow Chemical Co. announced an agreement to acquire the acrylates business of Celanese AG, a purchase that includes inventory, intellectual property and technology for crude acrylic acid, glacial acrylic acid, ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, methyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has criticized a new draft of the European Union's sweeping chemicals-regulation proposal as "excessive and highly bureaucratic," and urged major changes in the plan.
BASF has named Rainer Michael Blair Group vice president, Coatings, for North America, with responsibility for BASF's Coatings business in North America and global responsibility for the business's Automotive OEM Coatings unit.
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Eastman Chemical Co. announced plans to pursue “strategic alternatives” in an effort to improve the profitability of its coatings, adhesives, specialty polymers and inks (CASPI) segment.
ASTM International, the voluntary standards development organization, recently announced the launch of a new Internet-based system designed to initiate, develop and track draft standards and revisions before and during their balloting stage.
HALOX, a division of the Hammond Group Inc., has acquired the IRGACOR organic corrosion-inhibitor business from Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Terms were not disclosed.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is seeking to enact very low VOC limits on additional types of architectural coatings in a proposal that could be approved by the district’s governing board as soon as Nov. 5.
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