The Dow Chemical Co.'s UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit announced plans to build a new production plant at the company's Union Carbide Corp. St. Charles site in Louisiana and expand production operations in Alsip, IL, and Sarnia, Ontario.
- Lyondell Chemical Co. and Bayer MaterialScience AG formally opened a major new propylene oxide/styrene monomer manufacturing facility in Maasvlakte, The Netherlands, near Rotterdam.
International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP) has acquired Biochema Schwaben, a supplier of preservatives and biocides for industrial and personal-care applications, with products for the paint and coatings, ink, polymer emulsions, and other markets.
BASF's Greenville and Whitehouse, OH, coatings and resins facilities received the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council's 2003 "Excellence in Responsible Care" Award for environmental, health and safety performance.
Curtiss-Wright Corp. has acquired certain assets of the Evesham, UK, coatings business operated by the Morgan Advanced Ceramics Ltd. subsidiary of Morgan Crucible Plc. The purchase price was approximately £3.4 million, or about $6.35 million.
BASF Coatings presented the city of Sao Paulo with 15,000 liters of the company's Suvinil brand architectural coatings for "The Wall," a legal-graffiti art project celebrating the Brazilian city's 450th anniversary.
Soluol Inc., a privately held manufacturer of water- and solvent-based polyurethane resins and coatings, has acquired Noveon Inc.'s solvent-based polyurethane resin product line. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- J.M. Huber Corp.'s Huber Engineered Materials business unit has acquired a calcium carbonate processing facility in Quincy, IL, formerly owned and operated by Omya Quincy Inc.
- Polymer Solutions Inc. completed the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Alternative Materials Technology, to Chemcraft Holdings Corp., a subsidiary of Chemcraft International Inc.
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