Asahi Kasei Chemicals has completed the construction of a plant in China for Duranol polycarbonatediol (PCD), an intermediate for high-performance polyurethanes, and began its commercial operation. PCD is used to make high-performance ...
On a global scale, Southeast Asia represents the fourth largest market for synthetic latex polymers, accounting for 8% of the global consumption, according to the recently published Synthetic Latex Polymers: Southeast Asia Market Analysis ...
Tags: synthetic latex, polymers
BioAmber Inc., an industrial biotechnology company producing sustainable chemicals, announced it has signed an exclusive supply agreement for bio-based succinic acid with Oleon. Under the terms of the five-year contract, which runs from ...
Tags: Bio-Succinic Acid, Lubricant, Construction
Researchers from Canada’s Université Laval’s faculty of science and engineering and center for optics, photonics, and lasers have developed smart textiles that can monitor and transmit the wearers’ biomedical ...
Custom blow molded packaging solutions supplier Pretium Packaging has acquired Tri-Delta Plastics for an undisclosed amount. Tri-Delta manufactures a complete line of proprietary rigid packaging products for the food, healthcare, and ...
France-based Saint-Gobain is in the process of putting its glass packaging unit Verallia up for sale to focus on higher-margin home and construction products, with Ardagh confirming that it is monitoring the sale of the unit. The company ...
BASF broke ground on a new Innovation Campus in Navi Mumbai, India. The company will invest approximately €50 million via BASF Chemicals India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE. The facility will accommodate around ...
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BASF turns 150 in 2015. The company announced its anniversary program in an international press conference held in Ludwigshafen. In addition to celebrations and a historical retrospective, BASF has prepared a global co-creation program with ...
BASF started operations in a new emulsion polymers plant at its integrated Verbund site in Freeport, Texas. The acrylic emulsion polymers manufactured at this new plant are used for architectural coatings, construction chemicals, adhesives ...
Tags: architectural coatings, construction chemicals, Construction
Producer of speciality chemicals and NYSE listed, Eastman, has announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend for holders of the Company’s common shares in the amount of $0.40 per common share, ...
Tags: Chemical sales, free cash flows, Textile
Sigma Paints, a provider for the decorative, marine and protective market segment in the Middle East's paints and coatings industry, has announced its participation as the Gold Sponsor of the Gulf Goating Show 2015, which is taking place in ...
Tags: Gulf, marine market, protective market, Construction
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
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Bosch is launching an advertising campaign featuring Weather Channel Meteorologist Jim Cantore for its Icon wiper blades. Robert Bosch LLC has signed Weather Channel Meterologist Jim Cantore as the latest spokesman for Bosch Icon wiper ...
PT Hutchins, a KODA Distribution Group company, has announced the hiring of a new VP of Sales and the creation of a new, strategic technical manager position. J. Patrick Lancaster has been hired as the new VP of Sales for PT Hutchins. ...
Tags: management experience, industry knowledge, Construction
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging