Specialty chemicals company Clariant provided an update on its strategy to reach its 2015 mid-term targets at the company’s annual Capital Markets Day on June 28.

Argex Titanium Inc. has established a fully comprehensive research and development (R&D) center at its facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (Valleyfield), Quebec, the planned site of its first industrial-sized titanium dioxide (TiO₂) plant.

Solar Impulse – an ultra-lightweight, solar-powered plane capable of flying day and night – is set to take flight across America with the help of diverse material innovations and technologies from Bayer MaterialScience.

Innovation leaders from a broad cross-section of industries are anticipating a period of managed growth in 2013, according to the 29^th Annual R&D Trends Forecast conducted by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).

Arizona Chemical, Jacksonville, FL, has broken ground on its newest Science & Technology Center in Savannah, GA.

INVISTA’s Specialty Materials business expanded its footprint by 20 percent at the company’s 60,000-square-foot Applied Research Centre in Newark, DE.

Cray Valley Hydrocarbon Specialty Chemicals (HSC) has relocated to its new corporate research and development (R&D) facility in Exton, PA.

The Pigments & Cosmetics Technology Application Network China (TANC) of Merck Chemicals China has opened in Shanghai.

A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new environmentally friendly self-healing coating for aluminum to replace chromate coatings used in aerospace applications.

The Valspar Corp. announced plans to expand its research and development campus and renovate its former headquarters building, located in downtown Minneapolis.