Rockwood Color Pigments & Services Division has announced a new distribution network in the United States and Canada for the full line of Rockwood Pigments’ products, including Elementis’ pigments products, which Rockwood acquired in 2007.
Dow Epoxy, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co., has received approval from China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection for environmental impact assessments (EIA) for plans to build a 100,000 MTPA liquid epoxy resin (LER) plant and a 150,000 MTPA glycerine-to-epichlorohydrin (GTE) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.
In a move designed to better serve its global customers for composite resins, Reichhold has announced plans to expand into the fast-growing Chinese market and will build a resin factory near Tianjin, China.
Bayer MaterialScience has celebrated the startup of a new 20,000-tons-per-year facility for polyurethane dispersions (PUD) at the Bayer Integrated Site in Shanghai.
AkzoNobel has agreed to sell its Crown Paints decorative paint business in the United Kingdom and Ireland to Endless LLP, an independent private equity house. AkzoNobel has also agreed to sell two Belgian brands to Rieu Investissements S.A., a French producer of coatings.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. has completed the acquisition of the Liquid Coatings Subsidiaries of Inchem Holdings of Inchem Holdings International Limited.
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