PPG Industries has begun construction of a facility in Taiwan that will apply the company's electrocoat and dip-spin coatings to fasteners and small parts.
Worldwide holographic and specialty coated-film manufacturer, CFC International, Inc., has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Quad-C Management, Inc., a private equity firm.
Akzo Nobel has made major progress with its Chemicals divestment program. Two deals have been agreed upon as part of the strategic realignment of the portfolio.
Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. has announced a special partnership with the M.F. Cachat Company of Lakewood, Ohio, to supply 5-lb packages of its Ciba® MICROLITH® pigment preparations and Ciba® ORASOL® dyes to customers within the United States.
Specialty Coating Systems, Inc. (SCS), a former business unit of Cookson Group plc headquartered in Indianapolis, has been acquired by Bunker Hill Capital, L.P. (BHC).
Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., the world's largest producer of thermoset resins, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the global wax compounds business of Rohm and Haas Company. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Closing is subject to governmental approvals.
Less than five months after the DuPont titanium dioxide manufacturing plant near Delisle, Miss., suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, the company announced on January 25, 2006, that manufacturing operations have resumed at the site.
Spartan Environmental Technologies, a distributor and manufacturer of chemical oxidation and disinfection equipment, has appointed Applied Process Equipment, Inc., as its representative for the states of Arizona and New Mexico.
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