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BASF has signed an agreement to acquire Albemarle’s global surface treatment business, Chemetall.

Ennis-Flint, a portfolio company of Brazos Private Equity Partners LLC (Brazos), has been sold to Olympus Partners (Olympus).

Developing wall paints and varnishes presents a big challenge for manufacturers. One reason is that samples merely enable them to estimate what the dispersion behavior in the reaction container will be.

BRB announced that its new BRB Malaysia plant successfully opened on June 2, 2016.

It’s taken 12,000 hours of development work, involving 53 expert stakeholders, across more than three years, but ISO 19030 is finally nearing publication, in a move that has the potential to save the shipping industry as much as $30 billion in annual fuel costs.

Catexel has extended its cobalt alternative siccative offering to the coatings industry in a new license deal with specialty chemicals company DSM.

The European Coatings Conference 2017 is one of the largest and most important coatings conferences in Europe for coatings science and technology.

Flint Group Africa/Continental Printing Inks announced that Sampie Hamman has stepped down from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) after more than 21 years of service.

Specialty chemicals distributor Fitz Chem Corp. announced two new personnel appointments.

Brian Widdop has been awarded the British Coatings Federation’s (BCF) Silver Medal, which was presented by BCF’s Chief Executive Tom Bowtell at the end of May.