DuBois Chemicals, Cincinnati, OH, working with ACT Test Panel Technologies, Hillsdale, MI, has produced a new “standard” paint pretreatment and metal surface finishing test panel.
Two Kansas companies, Premier Paint 2000 Inc. and C3 Technology LLC, along with Tech Line Coatings Inc. in California, have introduced the first waterborne clearcoat on the automotive paint market.
CSG, Rochester Hills, MI, is set to begin the patented production of its PURETi™ photocatalytic surface treatment products at a facility in Auburn Hills, MI.
Perstorp, the Swedish chemicals group, has received legal approval for the takeover of the acquired activities within Rhodia Organics and Lyondell Chimie.
Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Connecticut, announced that together with MEGTEC Systems management, it has acquired MEGTEC from parent company Sequa Corp.
H.B. Fuller Co., St. Paul, MN, has acquired the majority assets of privately held Egymelt, a manufacturer and marketer of hot-melt and specialty water-based adhesives headquartered in Cairo, Egypt.
Mallard Creek Polymers Inc., Charlotte, NC, a manufacturer of specialty emulsion polymer products, has purchased a portfolio of performance polymer products and related assets from Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex, Research Triangle Park, NC.