On April 24, PPG, the world’s largest paint manufacturer, made a third offer in its bid to buy AkzoNobel, the second-largest paint manufacturer in the world.
Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. announced its partnership with 2M Holdings as a new distributor for the Elevance Clean® product line to the household, industrial and institutional market in the UK and Ireland.
Specialty chemicals company Clariant announced first-quarter 2017 sales of CHF 1.602 billion compared to CHF 1.478 billion in the first quarter of 2016.
PPG is celebrating the 50th anniversary of DURANAR® coatings throughout 2017, commemorating the introduction in 1967 of one of the industry’s first high-performance polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) coatings for metal building components.
WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the WACKER Group, is strengthening its integrated ketene production at its Burghausen site in Germany.
Berger Paints India Ltd. and Chugoku Marine Paints of Japan have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cooperation and collaboration in the fields of marine and related industrial paints in India.
Greenkote, a provider of advanced anti-corrosion metal coatings, announced it is working with Scott Bader, a global chemical company that manufactures, sells and distributes a wide range of synthetic resins, polymers and structural adhesives.