Teckrez Inc. has announced the promotion of Heather Bush to chief financial officer, as well as the appointment of Chris Armstrong to technical account manager.
The company will expand its portfolio of products with a lower CO2 footprint and is committed to providing a circular option in every major product line by 2025.
Moving to more environmentally benign monomers is essential for the continuation of a highly beneficial relationship with polymers. This shift creates an opportunity to simultaneously access new property profiles. New polyols synthesized using a high-purity isosorbide illustrate what is possible.
Arkema announces the mass-balance ISCC+ certification of a range of bio-attributed acrylic monomers, and specialty acrylic additives and resins, which are complimentary to the bio-based segregated polymers, resins, and additives Arkema is already offering.
Arkema, together with a consortium of companies, is exploring and advancing the recyclability of post-consumer PET (from bottles and other plastic items) to regain monomers for reuse as raw materials for more sustainable polyester powder resins for the coating market.
OH-functional acrylic emulsions can be designed with a wide range of hydroxyl values and performance characteristics to address the needs of many different applications in plastic, wood, automotive, and construction coatings.
Polly Mertz's new emulsion batch was delayed due to some of the ingredients freezing when left overnight on the dock. Polly, eager to start her batch scale-up, had approved placing the drums in a steam-heated room in the plant to allow for warming and easy pumping. What was the material that caused the problem, and what mistake had Polly made in heating up those frozen drums?
