CEO Hans Wijers officially opened Akzo Nobel's new powder coatings facility at Langfang in China on November 15. The new site - located between Beijing and Tianjin - not only consolidates the company's position as the world's largest manufacturer of powder coatings, but will also ensure that the business' growth momentum is maintained in what is the fastest growing global market for the product.
BASF celebrated the start of the commercial production of its amino resins plant located at BASF Auxiliary Chemicals Company Limited in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The plant reinforces BASF's commitment to long-term growth in the amino resins markets in China and the Asia Pacific region.
Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta, and Koch Industries, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, have reached a definitive agreement for Koch Forest Products, Inc., a wholly owned Koch subsidiary, to make a $48 per share cash tender offer for all shares of Georgia-Pacific.
usion UV Systems, Inc., has appointed QurTech SA as the exclusive distributor for its UV systems and components in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta.
SYNTHESIA, a division of ALIACHEM and a producer of HP pigments for more than 15 years, is now ready to start production of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) reds at its pigments and dyes plant in Pardubice in the Czech Republic.
ALTANA AG announced that ALTANA Chemie AG completed the acquisition of the ECKART group as of October 1, 2005. The acquisition had been announced in August 2005.
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