Emerald Specialties Group, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has completed an expansion of its R&D/pilot plant capabilities at its Cincinnati, OH, facility.
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has received a $224,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help develop dark-colored pigments for cool metal roof and façade coatings that incorporate near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence and reflectance to improve energy performance.
Evonik Industries announced its plan to invest more than $15 million in its new Richmond Business & Innovation Center. The new center will create an estimated 50 jobs over the next five years for the Richmond, VA, area.
Rotor blades are exposed to severe environmental conditions. Rain, hail, sand, salty sea water and dirt all gather on the surfaces and lead, especially on blade-leading edges, to soiling and roughening of paint and coating systems.
The engineering team at Emerald Polymer Additives and Nitriles, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has commissioned its new pilot plant to expand the group’s range of Nychem™ specialty nitrile and butadiene emulsion products.
Representing a new chapter in the company’s history in the Delaware Valley, The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow), Midland, MI, inaugurated a new Northeast Technology Center (NTC) in Collegeville, PA.
