Utek Corp., a U.S.-based technology-transfer company, and Trio Industries Group, Inc., an integrated manufacturer of finished household-cabinet components that will utilize surface-coating finishing and manufacturing processes, announced that Trio Industries Group has acquired Ultra Fine Coating Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Utek Corp., in a stock transaction.
Air Products is instigating a series of strategic initiatives to strengthen and expand its growth platforms, improve its return on capital and return value to its shareholders.
The Dow Chemical Company will permanently cease production at its Train I toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production line at Texas Operations in Freeport, Texas.
B&P Process Equipment and Systems, LLC, Saginaw, Mich., has signed an agreement with Donghui Equipment Company, Yantai, China. The alliance allows B&P and Donghui to offer complete powder-coating systems, CE- and ATEX-certified, for the European market as well as NEC-compliant for the Americas.
Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its Decorative Coatings site near Barcelona in Spain as part of an expansion of its business activities on the Iberian Peninsula, which will include the construction of a new purpose-built facility.
Nae Woi Korea, Ltd., a producer of opaque styrene-acrylic emulsions and associative thickeners, has appointed The TryLine Group as its national distributor/agent in the United States (except Florida).
Spartan Environmental Technologies, a distributor and manufacturer of chemical oxidation and disinfection equipment, has appointed MEMECO Sales and Service Corp. of Lincolnwood, Ill., as its representative for Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.