Holger Hüppeler will take over the management of the Inorganic Pigments (IPG) business unit at the specialty chemicals company LANXESS as of Dec. 1, 2017.
Due to the impact and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, several of Sun Chemical’s feedstock suppliers have announced a force majeure and many other raw materials suppliers are reviewing allocations.
Hoover Color, a division of CATHAY INDUSTRIES, and Ecoat, a French developer of biobased chemistry for the coatings industry, have started a collaborative project to develop coatings formulations on the basis of environmentally friendly raw materials.
Chemical distributor Krahn Chemie GmbH and the Finnish company FP-Pigments Oy are cooperating in the sales and marketing of opacity pigments for paint, coating and printing ink applications in Germany.
Birla Carbon, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of carbon black and a flagship business of the Aditya Birla Group, recently started a campaign, Social Value of Carbon Black, with the aim to educate end-consumers on the significance of carbon black.