Eight students aged 14-15 from Manchester Communication Academy have successfully completed the first stage of their pioneering Future Entrepreneurship Partnership at HMG Paints Ltd. HMG Paints, the UK's largest independent industrial ...
Tags: HMG Paints, Entrepreneurship, Decoration
Evonik Industries is building a new production plant for polymer dispersants at the Goldschmidtstrasse site in Essen. The specialty chemicals company is thus investing an amount in the doubledigit- million-euro range and is tripling ...
Tags: Evonik, New Production Plant, Construction
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
Marketandmarket's report "Cellulose Ethers Market by Derivative (Methyl, Ethyl, Hydroxyethyl, Hydroxypropyl & Carboxymethyl Cellulose), by Application (Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care, Construction, Food & Beverages, Surface Coatings & ...
Tags: Cellulose Ethers, trend, Decoration
WACKER POLYMERS is to raise its prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the VINNAPAS and VINNOL brand in the regions Americas and Greater China. As customer contracts allow, effective ...
Tags: WACKER POLYMERS, Dispersions, Textile
According to a new study by the consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, consumption of five of the leading additives for coatings and inks in 2013 was 1.02 million tons, as supplied, worth $4.66 billion. A 5 percent annual rate of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Ohio-based Pro Mach's division Federal Mfg has launched a new hygienic pressure/gravity filling machine for food applications such as sauces, syrups, edible oils, and other viscous foods and non-viscous foods. According to Federal, the ...
US-based sustainable packaging solutions provider Liqui-Box has introduced the upgraded version of its new Liqui-Box 1000 filling system. The company plans to commercialize the new dual head filler system in the third quarter of 2014. ...
Tags: Liqui-Box, filling system, Packaging
For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) has announced that it is partnering with Smithers Rapra as a supporting association of this year's Pigment and Color Science Forum and TiO2 World Summit. This year the two long-standing ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Pigment, Coating
American paints and coatings supplier PPG Industries has announced its plans to invest about $40m in its coatings manufacturing facility in Sumare, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The expansion project will add a 65,000-square-foot plant for on-site ...
Tags: Coatings Facility, PPG
VELOX GmbH has formed a new distribution partnership with Lubrizol Advanced Materials M.S. S.L. for its Merquinsa legacy TPU technologies. VELOX is a well-established distributor of raw material specialities for the plastics, composites, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
TBF Environmental Technology Inc., a leader in the development of green industrial solvents, announced that the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) of California has approved and certified TBF Environment Technology ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
The global market for powder coating is expected to reach $12.48 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Growing support for the use of powder coatings in comparison to conventional liquid paints by regulatory ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Chemicals, powder coatings, coatings