Atlas Weathering Services Group, a division of the U.S.-based Atlas Material Testing Technology, has opened its new facility at Uttermerur, 70 km (44 miles) from Chennai.
Kemira
Coatings (Tikkurila), which is responsible for Kemira’s paints and coatings
business, has prepared a merger plan in which Tikkurila Paints Oy and Tikkurila
Coatings Oy will merge into their parent company, Tikkurila Oy.
Atlas
Material Testing Technology LLC has finalized an agreement to sell a majority
stake in the company to Industrial Growth Partners (IGP), a specialized
investment firm focused on middle-market industrial manufacturing and
manufacturing services businesses.
H.B.
Fuller Co. has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell the
entire stake in its automotive joint venture to the principal joint venture
partner, EMS CHEMIE Holding AG of Switzerland, for a purchase price of $80
million.
Syrgis
Performance Products has announced the acquisition of the organic peroxides
business from Norac Inc., a specialty chemical company with annual revenue of
more than $50 million.
Thermo
Fisher Scientific Inc. has signed an agreement with Edax, a business unit of
the Ametek Materials Analysis Division, to distribute its Electron Backscatter
Diffraction (EBSD) Systems.