Flowserve Corp., Dallas, a global provider of fluid motion and control products and services, has announced the establishment of an award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), memorializing longtime Flowserve employee and pump technology expert Dr. Sankaraiyer Gopalakrishnan.
Cognis has received the 2005/2006 "Umweltschutzpreis" environmental award from the Federation of German Industries (BDI) in recognition of its Disponil® AFX surfactant systems.
Formed only in 1999, Becker Industrial Coatings Malaysia has outgrown its original manufacturing plant and has now successfully commissioned a larger plant of 5,500 square meters in Kota Kemuning, Selangor.
Akzo Nobel underlines its commitment to the North American automotive plastic coatings market by breaking ground on an 11,000-sq-ft production expansion project that will incorporate state-of-the art equipment and processes for plastics coatings.
Some 18 months after the signing of the joint venture agreement between Clariant and Hangzhou Baihe Chemical Co. Ltd. for the production of high-performance (HP) pigments in Hangzhou, southwest of Shanghai, China, the new facility has gone on-stream.