H.B. Fuller is set to open a new Packaging Center of Excellence in North America in a bid to address customers packaging adhesives needs across a broad range of applications. According to the global adhesives provider, the Packaging ...
DuPont announced that it will increase prices on all of its titanium dioxide (TiO2) products sold in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions effective Oct. 1, 2013, or as contracts allow, as ...
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SCD-iBIO, an industrial biotechnology group associated with the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA), announced that DSM's vice president of bio-based chemicals and materials, Dr. Marcel Lubben, will be the keynote ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The garage is the most neglected part of the house. It is because of this that the garage gets smelly and dirty and requires constant repairs. The garage floor space also needs to be constantly touched up with paint because it is utilized ...
Tags: Floor Coating, Garage Floor
KH Neochem Americas, Inc. has appointed Takeshi Matsui, executive vice president, responsible for the company's North and South Americas' sales and marketing efforts. Matsui replaces Toshi Fujima who will assume an international marketing ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
After having created history in the first two editions of Asia's one and only comprehensive denim B2B show, Denim Club is now gearing up to organize the third edition, on the same lines as the first two, and bigger, better and with more ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Denim, Textile
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council's 2012 End-Use Market Survey on the Polyurethanes Industry in the U.S., Canada and Mexico is now available to order. This biennial survey of the industry, ...
Tags: Polyurethanes, Chemicals, Construction
LANXESS is countering the challenging business environment with a comprehensive efficiency program. Currently, it is foremost the synthetic rubber activities that are experiencing a temporary weakness in demand, increased competition in the ...
Tags: Textile
Ashland Specialty Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., today said it will increase the price of its phosphate ester specialty surfactants to the coatings industry by 5 percent effective October 1, 2013, or as contracts allow. The ...
Polyglass U.S.A., Inc. has launched a new contractor rewards program. A leading manufacturer of modified bitumen membranes and roof coatings in the commercial and residential roofing industry, Polyglass recently introduced its Polyglass Q ...
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AGC Chemicals Americas Inc. and Zeon Chemicals have formed a distribution agreement for AGCCA's AFLAS fluoroelastomers. The partnership provides enhanced growth opportunities for both companies while increasing product offerings to current ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
BASF opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Kazan, Russia. Together with the facility inaugurated in Podolsk near Moscow in 2012, BASF now supplies the Russian construction sector with a broad range of concrete admixtures ...
Tags: BASF, Concrete Admixtures
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., a high-growth specialty chemicals company, announced today the commercial availability of Inherent C18 Diacid — a mid-chain length, bio-based diacid — that enables producers of polyamides and ...
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Answering the need for increased speed and accuracy in infrared analysis, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. has introduced the IRTracer-100 Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer. Combining high speed, sensitivity and ...
Tags: Shimadzu, Spectrophotometer
The Asian naphtha market may firm going into the last two months of this year on curtailed arbitrage flows which will likely tighten supply balances and year-end demand mopping up excess naphtha supply from the higher arbitrage arrivals in ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy