ANGUS Chemical Company has announced that AMP, a multifunctional specialty chemical that's widely used in latex paint formulations, is no longer classified as a volatile organic compound (VOC) under a final rule by the U.S. Environmental ...
Tags: AMP, VOC, Decoration
BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, broke ground on the second phase of its Innovation Campus Asia Pacific at its Pudong site in Shanghai, China. The €90 million expansion consists of an additional regional research and ...
Tags: BASF, Campus Asia Pacific, Textile
US demand for solvents is expected to increase at a 1.5 percent annual pace through 2018 to 11 billion pounds, driven by a robust recovery in construction spending along with a continued rebound in manufacturing output. Strength in both ...
Tags: U.S.Demand, coatings market
Chuck Kahle, PPG Industries' chief technology officer and vice president, research and development, coatings, delivered the keynote address today at the American Coatings Show in Atlanta, hosted by the American Coatings Association. His ...
Tags: Construction, Coatings
In a move to better serve its customers in North and Latin America, the global chemical company Oxea has started basic engineering for a 2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH) and a Propanol unit at its world-scale production plant at Bay City, Texas. Both ...
Tags: Construction, Chemicals
Oxea has started basic engineering for a 2-Ethylhexanol (2-EH) and a Propanol unit at its world-scale production plant at Bay City, Texas. Both units are scheduled to come on stream in late 2016. Key elements of the basic engineering work ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals
The Coatings Research Group, Inc., (CGRI) the international association of 32 paint manufacturers located across 12 countries, has announced that Richard Scott will succeed Dr. Jackie Savoca as the organization’s sixth executive ...
Tags: Coatings
TMR analyzes and forecast the global MEK market for paint and coatings and printing inks. The report covers forecast and analysis for the methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) market on a global and regional level. The demand forecast is done based on ...
Nipsea Group won an auction held in Shanghai to become the majority shareholder of Guangzhou Supe Chemical Co. Ltd, a company whose wide range of industrial floor coatings and innovative technologies will help Nipsea further boost its ...
Tags: Supe Chemical, Nipsea Group
The Valspar Corporation and Maersk Container Industry announced a long-term supply agreement. Valspar, one of the global leaders in the paint and coatings industry, will provide Valspar Aquaguard waterborne coating for shipping containers ...
Tags: Valspar, Waterborne Coating
Brand designing firm Bluemarlin has developed new packaging design for the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar's new portfolio launched in Australia. The new design, which is expected to highlight the brand's culture of Owning Color, ...
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc. (NYSH: ASH), announced the addition of a coatings and construction lab in its Shanghai Technical Center. With 20 additional chemists, the newly expanded technical center ...
Tags: Ashland, Coatings&Construction Lab, Shanghai Technical Center
Paint and coatings producer Valspar has signed a long term agreement to supply waterborne coating for shipping containers manufactured by Maersk Container Industry (MCI). Under the deal, Valspar will supply its Aquaguard waterborne ...
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Solvents Market (Alcohols, Hydrocarbons, Ketones, Esters, Chlorinated and Others) for Paints and Coatings, Printing Inks, Pharmaceuticals, Adhesives and Cosmetics ...
Tags: solvent, analysis, size, share, growth, trends, forecast
Akzo Nobel NV Monday said it swung back to a net profit in the third quarter as the Dutch company, one of the world's leading paint and coatings makers, made faster-than-expected progress in cutting costs in a wide-reaching restructuring of ...
Tags: Construction, Coating, Chemicals