BASF has invested €2.5 million in its Demarchi coatings site, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, to expand its capacity to service Brazil’s automotive industry with waterborne automotive coatings. The goal is to ...
Tags: Automotive Coatings, BASF
Flame Control Coatings has announced the launch of Flame Control 60-60A Thermal Barrier coating for Spray Polyurethane Foam. This water-based thin film intumescent coating will provide a 15-minute thermal barrier over Spray Polyurethane ...
Tags: Coatings, Polyurethane Foam
BASF and SINOPEC will build a new world-scale production plant for Neopentylglycol (NPG) at their state-of-the-art Verbund site, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture in Nanjing, China. The plant, with a total annual capacity of about ...
Tags: BASF, polyalcohol
WEILBURGER Graphics located in Gerhardshofen, Franconia, launches a new product line within the SENOLITH UV class on to the market: high reactive UV-inking system lacquers. This product line includes UV curing matt and gloss lacquers ...
A variety of materials can selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light. These materials that humans have chosen, developed and used are called pigments, which usually have special and ideal properties for coloring other materials. If ...
During the week of April 20, ethylene production facilities at The Dow Chemical Company Plaquemine, La. site experienced two separate process incidents. These separate incidents collectively resulted in the disruption of ethylene production ...
Tags: Ethylene Production, Dow Chemical
BASF is evaluating an investment in a world-scale methane-to-propylene complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The on-purpose production of propylene to supply the company's North American operations would allow BASF to take advantage of low gas ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, BASF
PPG Industries' building products group announced that DURANAR coatings are being used to paint the 11-story podium portion of One World Trade Center, the 104-story skyscraper that will soon open as the centerpiece of the new World Trade ...
Tags: coatings, Construction, Decoration, Metal Coatings
AkzoNobel's Marine Coatings business, supplier of International advanced hull coatings, and The Gold Standard Foundation have announced a new and unique methodology to reward the improved fuel efficiency of ships within the international ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
Sherwin-Williams has created two aerospace coatings-dedicated social media sites through the creation of new Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. This new portal allows aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul and coatings specifiers an extensive ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, coatings industry
"Clariant had a promising start to the year with good volume growth and an increase in operating profitability," said CEO Hariolf Kottmann. "Overall, our businesses performed well in an improving but still mixed economic environment. The ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, economy
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today reported that all of the canned foods tested for Bisphenol A (BPA) were safe to consume. BPA was not detected in 98.5 ...
Tags: Canned Food, Bisphenol
AkzoNobel has completed the expansion of its Industrial Coatings site in Songjiang near Shanghai in China, doubling annual production capacity and creating the company's biggest plant for packaging coatings in the world. Work started in ...
Tags: Industrial Coatings, Coatings, Construction
Emerald Specialties Group, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has introduced two new 100% active FOAM BLAST defoamers for coatings and graphic arts, including both aqueous and energy curable (UV/EB) applications. FOAM ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Verdezyne, Inc., a privately-held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, announced that it has produced more than one metric ton of bio-based dodecanedioic acid (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Powder Coatings, Coatings