Arkema
has decided to sell its Specialty Amines business in North America to Taminco,
Gent, Belgium, whose core business is the production of amines and derivatives.
Wheelabrator
Group recently unveiled plans for a multimillion-dollar manufacturing facility
in Poland, accelerating its expansion plans into Central and Eastern Europe.
Ciba
and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich have won the Swiss
Chemical Society’s (www.swisschemistry.ch) prestigious Sandmeyer Prize,
reflecting the exemplary collaboration between their research teams.
Reichhold,
Inc., has been appointed to serve on the board of directors for the Mexican
national chemical industry association, ANIQ, La Associacion Nacional de la
Industria Quimicais, a prestigious honor for the company.
ANGUS
Chemical Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, is
building a research and development manufacturing plant to assist in the
scale-up and validation of next-generation nitroalkane-based products.