Ashland Inc. signed a definitive agreement to purchase the assets of Northwest Coatings of Oak Creek, Wis., a formulator and manufacturer of adhesives and coatings employing ultraviolet and electron beam (UV/EB) polymerization technologies.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has launched a new website, www.xymara.com, which sets a new industry standard for the presentation of high-quality colors and effects on the Web, allowing 3-D visualization at different angles.
Akzo Nobel's Aerospace Coatings business (ANAC), Arnhem, the Netherlands, says it is the first to develop products to contain breakthrough chromate-free technology following the signing of a commercial licensing agreement with the North Dakota State University Research Foundation.
Cognis has extended its FoamStar® range of defoamers, using innovative technology to combine excellent defoaming and wetting performance with environmental compatibility.
Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its MPP Systems® business to Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, part of the Water Division of French company Veolia Environnement.
DS Containers' two-piece steel can took first place in the aerosol category at the International Cans of the Year competition held in Barcelona, Spain, in October.
Soliant, LLC, Lancaster, S.C., manufacturer of Fluorex(R) paint film, has named Leonard E. Poole to the position of automotive technical sales manager.
As part of a consistent strategic and operative alignment, the Division Effect Pigments (ECKART Group) of ALTANA Chemie AG, Wesel, Germany, will be closing the production site for aluminum pastes at Porto Marghera near Venice, Italy, at the end of 2006 and relocating production to the existing European sites.
Tronox Incorporated announced that the Tiwest synthetic rutile plant in Chandala, Western Australia, restarted production, and its daily production has returned to pre-shutdown levels.
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