HORN has announced a new partnership with H.B. Fuller Polymers, effective Oct. 1. HORN will represent H.B. Fuller Polymers as its exclusive sales distributor throughout the Western and Southwestern U.S. territories, offering a line of ...
WACKER has expanded the service portfolio at its technical center in Mexico City, Mexico. The local facility now comprises state-of-the-art applications technology and test equipment for polymer dispersions needed as binders for ...
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, was the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures Series sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems ...
Sika is continuing to increase its production capacity in Russia through new and expansion investments. In Volgograd, in southern Russia, a mortar factory and a plant to produce concrete admixtures are being opened. At the existing site in ...
Tags: concrete admixtures, polymers
The short-term outlook for biomaterials in coatings and related sectors in Europe has been looking grim in the wake of the fall in the oil price. However companies along the biomaterials value chain in the region are not overtly concerned. ...
Tags: biomaterials, coatings
A recently released report from Transparency Market Research (TMR) forecasts that the global epoxy resins market will develop at a CAGR of 6.9 percent from 2014 to 2020. TMR, a market intelligence firm based in the U.S., states that by ...
Tags: Paints, Coatings, Resins Market
Johnson Matthey Process Technologies, a provider of advanced process technologies, and Rennovia Inc., a privately held company that develops novel catalysts and processes for the cost advantaged production of chemical products from ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, paint pigment, renewable feedstocks
Spain-based plastics technology centre AIMPLAS is spearheading a project called SINTEPOL that aims at finding new ways of biopolymer synthesis and modification routes through reactive extrusion processes. Biopolymers are produced from ...
Tags: packaging, packaging material, plastics
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), along with colleagues at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University, have developed a 3D-printed cap smart cap to detect spoiled milk. The 3D-printed cap uses ...
Tags: Smart Cap, Spoiled Milk
American fibre producer Invista, co-sponsor of the Kingpins denim show in New York City, will be showcasing the latest Lycra Beauty branded shaping fabrics from around the world at Kingpins on July 21 and 22, it said in a press statement. ...
DuPont Performance Polymers recently installed a 3D Suction blow-molding machine and a 450-ton injection molding machine in Asia-Pacific to strengthen its application development capabilities in the region. The 3D suction blow molding ...
Tags: 3D Suction, DuPont, chemiclas
Pan-European investment firm Aurelius Group has purchased UK-based compounder and recycler of post-use rigid plastics Regain Polymers Holdings. Previously owned by Chamonix Private Equity, Regain provides plastic recycling services to ...
Baler and recycling engineering firm Middleton Engineering has installed a new swan neck conveyor at Biffa Polymers’ Wilton International Petrochemical Complex in Redcar, UK. Biffa is an integrated waste management business that is ...
Effective Aug 1, 2015 or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices for styrene-butadiene latex polymers sold in North America. As a consequence of recent cost increases in production and delivery, prices will increase up to $0.05 per ...
Tags: BASF, styrene-butadiene, latex polymers
PPG Industries' protective and marine coatings business has introduced the SIGMA SAILADVANCE high-performance antifouling coatings range suitable for a variety of operating conditions. The range currently comprises four coatings: SIGMA ...
Tags: chemicals, PPG, SIGMA SAILADVANCE MX, marine coatings